Ski Touring in Switzerland – Week #2
Week 2 with ISM was the Ski Grand St. Bernard touring week… suggested as a followup to the Week 1 Ski Touring Skills class.
Ski Touring in Switzerland – Week #1
We recently spent 2 weeks in Switzerland with ISM – International School of Mountaineering – to learn, and practice, ski touring. Ski touring is “skiing across open country, walking uphill … Read More
“Stranded” in Zermatt, Switzerland
“13,000 Tourists Stranded in a Swiss Ski Resort for 2 Days” “Tourists airlifted out of Swiss ski resort of Zermatt” These are the headlines we woke up to in Zermatt, … Read More
We Love Barcelona
And the hits just keep coming. Our last stop of this one-month, 50th Anniversary Extravaganza with Mom and Dad was Barcelona, Spain. It has been, and remains, one of our … Read More
The Italian and French Rivieras
We were actually supposed to stop at Palamos, Spain rather than Sète, France prior to our last stop in Barcelona. But unrest and strikes due to the Catalonian Independence movement … Read More
Italy – Rome, Florence & Venice
Are you ready for the longest post in the history of blogposts?! Many of you know that we are on a month-long trip to celebrate Mom and Dad’s 50th wedding … Read More
Hanoi and Halong Bay
We ended our month in Vietnam with a couple days in Hanoi, and a couple days in the famed Halong Bay. Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam and the country’s second … Read More
Sa Pa and Northwest Vietnam
We took the Reunification Express train from Dong Hoi to Hanoi, a 10-hour trip lined with rice fields and low-lying plains next to the East Vietnam Sea. It was nice … Read More