FIRST of all: a huge apology to you since it wasn,t my intention to send automatic updates to my whole contact list! I just found out that,s happenning. I'll turn that off and if you want to see the latest, come on by. A wintery storm pretty much terminated the last two days of the trek through the alps so we fast tracked to Zermatt. Cold, no problem, but snow and ice, no. We left the Haute Route at Gruben, Switzerland. A little hamlet that is accessed onl...

To be fair this photo IS not where we are. In the internet station I'm at I'm unable to load photos, however the image is close. From Grimentz, a truly fairytale looking town, we found the local bus shut down so we took a <shortcut> to Zinal, the next town over. hmmmm well we accidently took the high route versus low route and found ourselves on a 3hr hike---the toughest I've ever done in my life up a mountain. The weather was gorgeous. I think it was...

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I'll be honest... I didn't expect to get up bright and early and go on a hike pretty much straight up a hill before breakfast. That was my introduction to Colin's father and actually it was very cool. This man is seriously active even packing up weight into a pack just to make it worth the trek! Ok off to the train.

Another great day took a train about 30 min to Bellizona, Switzerland. There is a massive castle that has a wall that goes all over the place. There are some photos in the album. Yet more incredible Italian food and even a sample of the "Mexican" food and great conversation meeting friends and chatting about this unusually incredibly diverse town with the blending of many languages and dialects, food and culture. OH! the mexican food was nothin...