Ready, Steady, ...

With just a few hours left in Germany, it might be a good idea to write a little bit about the current status.
My visa got here in time. Just one day after being in Frankfurt, my passport with the attached visa was in the mail, yay!
I also made arrangements for my stay in Atlanta. I found a nice offer on craigslist for a furnished room in Decatur (which is quite close to Atlanta city itself). After a few talks on the phone and exhanging quite some e-mails with the owner of the house, I am confident that this will work out and that I will have a nice stay there till the end of December.

So tomorrow (Sunday) I will depart in Frankfurt at 9.30am and arrive in Atlanta at around 1.00pm. After I got through the screening, customs and imigration I will head to my hotel in downtown Atlanta, where I will stay for one night. The next day I will again go to the airport again, to get on my plane to Denver. After a quick stop my connecting flight will get me to San Jose.
From there I will head to the hotel in Mountain View, where I will (again) stay for one night till Tuesday. The rest of the week I will stay in corporate appartments of Google.
On Tuesday, my orientation will start at the GooglePlex ('Plex). I am really looking forward to that week in Mountain View.

If I have time, I will try to go to San Francisco for one day to visit some friends, but I don't know about the schedule yet.

So that's it for the moment. The next entry will follow, and it will be from the United States.