The best part of my trip to Switzerland in the fall of 2009 is that while it wasn’t my first visit to the country, I did get to explore an entirely new region, completely foreign to me. After my time in German Switzerland, the group headed down south, almost to the border, to the Italian [...]
Photo Friday: Ticino, Switzerland
November 12, 2010 By 32 Comments
I’ve had this deep intense burning for Europe lately that I can’t exactly explain. Although it’s only been 14 months since I’ve last been on the continent—on an adventure trek through Switzerland last fall—it feels lightyears away. And then I came across SVV doing some stealthy Google mapping in our office. I got closer, and [...]
Climb Every Mountain
October 30, 2009 By 30 Comments
True, my recent jaunt to Switzerland was a “work trip,” but really it was all about pushing my body to the limits and sufficiently freaking myself out. Observe: Yes, that’s me, dangling by two carabiners and little else—without being belayed, mind you—somewhere around 10,000 feet in the Alps. Full disclosure? It was AWESOME. Especially when [...]
Photo Friday: Zurich, Switzerland
October 2, 2009 By 24 Comments
I’m not much for cities usually when I’m traveling (Berlin being a rare exception). So the fact that moments after I stepped foot off the train in Zurich I wanted to move there says volumes. I don’t know what it is precisely, but Zurich is intoxicating. It’s got all the best parts of Switzerand—the clean [...]
Biking the Swiss Alps
September 28, 2009 By 25 Comments
My first time in Switzerland was in September of 2003, when I was still a backpacker on a very tight budget and, as a double whammy, at a time when Switzerland was nowhere near as affordable as it is now. (The franc is one-to-one with the US dollar finally…can you believe it?!) So I lived [...]
