Day 9: I came to Switzerland at the perfect time. From what I heard they had a relatively dry winter and it only picked up in the last couple of weeks. Today the temperature raised another few degrees outside to make it a nice day, around 45 f. With this climate shift comes a whole [...]
Day: 8 Well today was dreary, and although I did make it up to the mountain to snowboard, after three hours I just headed back to the hostel soaking wet from the rain. It has got a little warmer in the last couple of days and has melted much of the snow from the previous [...]
Day: 7 Wow! Today flew by. I woke up a little late and skipped the snowboarding, well, because I felt like it. I spent the morning wondering around the Alps just taking these pictures and wondering about how a place could be so amazing. I also thought of all the other places I am going [...]
Day: 6 I climb out of my top bunk, glance out the window and guess what? Thats Right! Another spectacular day for snowboarding and breathing that beautiful alpine air. I woke up a little late so I skipped breakfast, threw on some snow cloths, grabbed my board and made a straitline to the train up [...]
Day: 5 I learned an important world tour photography lesson today, if you leave your memory card in your computer, when you go to take pictures on the slopes your camera won’t work. I sucked a little because this morning was so great that everyone should have seen it. Fresh snow on everything. The snowboarding [...]
Day: 4 Ohhhhh…… my head can still feel the Shotski. It turns out that not everyone around has my standards for buying good vodka. It may be that it was 10 francs (about $7) a bottle or it may be that mixing it with Jello just hurts the brain the next day. The Alps have [...]
Day 3: Snow , Beautiful, Snow. And lots of it keeps falling from the sky all day long. I got up early, ate breakfast and decided to snowboard for the day with my new roommates Nick and Jana. Well it turns out, to much snow can be a bad thing, even for a ski resort. [...]
Day: 2 I was wide awake at 7:30am this morning, still exhausted, but I couldn’t sleep, especially with the glorious Alps sitting outside my window. I got up, went downstairs and realized that I still didn’t have any food. So I headed down to the market to stock up on some eggs, cheese and bread [...]
Day: 1 Switzerland Railroad Tracks. March 1, 2006 Well for all my talk, my first day was rather uneventful. After my morning layover in Dublin and my pint of Guinness. I boarded my plane to Geneva which should have been a short 2 hour hop. After getting on the plane they let us know that [...]
Day: 0 Chicago O’Hare International Airport, USA. Feb 28. 2006 Wow, I never thought I’d be this nervous before I left. I have butterflies of anticipation and am starting to feel like a bride on her wedding day getting those last minute jitters. My plane takes off in 2 hours. I was up by 5am [...]
