DR has arrived, Baltic trip begins

My brother, DR, arrived in a flight to Germany yesterday, our first visitor from the US. We picked him up at the Hamburg airport (and along the way were stopped by the train police). He rested at our apartment yesterday, but today we will begin a trip northeast and hope to get to Poland by nightfall. For about a year now we have been off and on planning to attempt a trip around the Baltic and now it has finally arrived, just in time for a much needed vacation for me from work for a week. I'll try to keep this updated on our progress and how it goes.