Exciting times!

Most of you are probably aware of the fact that my time in Australia is up and that I am leaving you to go back to Europe/Germany by the end of April.
Some of you are even surprised to still see me out on the trails, because I haven't been around much over the last ten months.
I have been travelling a lot, first to Germany to be with my family and then around the left/western half of Australia(if you haven't visited our travelblog yet, here you go: www.ozoffwego.blogpot.com ...still to be updated...).
Yes, it will be very sad to leave you all after six years; ahead of me are exciting and challenging times adjusting back to german culture and jumping right into the german recession. After all that time travelling I am very excited to get back on my bike and race in Germany, get to meet the german bike community and hopefully be welcomed the same way as I was welcomed in Australia.
Well, I have entered the Bike Trans Alp as a team of two, which means a complete traverse of the Alps from Füssen Germany to Riva del Garda in Italy in July...autsch! Covering a distance of roughly 600 km (385 miles) and a vertical gain/pain of 19,500 m (65,000 ft.) .
Unfortunately my australian race partner is injured and therefore I have to look for someone else. Anyone interested? Seriously!!
And yet another opportunity came up:
The MTB racing team 'Fiat Rotwild' is searching for one member riding the 'Craft bike Trans Germany 2009'. You can win a start position, the hotel accommodation in each stage town and a race bike from ROTWILD for the time of the race week.
Wow, I just sent my appliation in and now fingers crossed, wish me luck!!
It was always a little dream of mine to race pro in exactly THAT team.
There you go - exciting times!
You might remember that I did the challenging eight day stage MTB race from west to east Germany with my brother in 2007,
check out the race report.
'Rotwild' is a german cool designed highend bike-brand that doesn't have exposure in Australia, *except of my old Rotwild bike that brought over when I first arrived in OZ.