On May 24, 2009, at 22:04, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
you can order the tickets online and they will arrive (at least to California) in less than a week
Nowadays, we tend to print them ourselves (www.bahn.de supplies them as PDF), this is confusingly called "online-ticket" at Deutsche Bahn. You need to supply the last four digits of the number of a credit card (or other semi-official type card) that you will carry to validate the self-printed ticket.
And, yes, you want to spend as much of the train time as possible in an ICE (accept no substitutes, although THA might almost qualify).
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