We took the subway downtown to the Hauptbahnhof and then walked through the Oktoberfest area. At 09:30 in the morning it wasn't exactly running at full steam, but there was still quite a bit of activity.
Oktoberfest takes all the rides, food booths, and trinkets of a good state fair and adds huge beer drinking halls. As best I can tell, these buildings are set up just for the two weeks of Oktoberfest and then taken back down again.
On the far side of the Festwiese (where Oktoberfest is held) is the Deutsches Museum's transportation facility (Verkehrszentrum). They cover everything that rolls from yak carts to ICE trains.
Just inside the door was an early automobile with an engine with an exposed crankshaft and flywheel.
In the section on race cars was a racing Messerschmitt -- something of a contradiction in terms.
There was also a BMW Isetta that I could actually take a picture of.
They had a lot of information on trains along with several model train setups.
And we also found a motorcycle that was the closest we've seen yet to our bicycle. It was a tandem trike with the passenger out front and the controls in the back.
We spent several hours in the museum and then went back to Oktoberfest to grab a late lunch. By then it was quite a bit more crowded and all of the rides were running. We munched our way through the crowds and then picked up few last-minute trinkets on the way back to the subway.
Our flight home is late-morning tomorrow. This evening we'll put up the final journal postings, check-in and get our seats assigned, and then start sorting stuff in preparation for tomorrow's packing.
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