Day 16 - September 11

I'm sitting in the Radisson hotel at the Zurich airport ready to catch a flight home tomorrow. It’s been an amazing adventure! I have no regrets and I’d do it again with some tweaks in my expectations. I was unrealistic with my expectations of the weather and I think I assumed all would be sunny skies. Therefore I was unnecessarily disappointed in how much fog and rain I encountered but I had the gear! I was unrealistic about the pace I could keep hiking on the really long days with thousands of feet of ups and downs. I had the strength, stamina, and balance to do the miles which pleased me because I worked really hard on that but I couldn’t get it done in the daylight hours so adjustments were made. And yet, the weather issues and my pace led to some of my favorite and unexpected adventures. But I’m ready to be home and see Bill and Felix and Slinky as well as see what progress has been made on the updates to our new house.

My morning in St Moritz and my train trip to Zurich were filled with so much beauty. My feet were itching to get back in my hiking boots!

St Moritz is a beautiful town. Apparently during ski season it is totally different with wall to wall people spending lots and lots of money.

There’s a beautiful lake

The next two pictures could be bookends

This is part of a huge playground that had everything you could imagine from pickleball courts to fenced in mini soccer fields and so on. This part of the playground is lined on 3 sides with racks for the kids’ skis.

Did a little retail therapy before I caught the train and used up the last of my francs.

I found my little black nosed sheep

And my ibex. Now I have little carved figurines of all the animals I saw. They are done by the same artist. Maybe I’ll play with them all on my flight home.

You can’t leave Switzerland without Swiss chocolate

Goodbye St Moritz

I was completely unprepared for the beauty of my train ride to Zurich. I saw some of the most beautiful scenery I’ve seen since I’ve been here. I’m sure the sun shining helped.

Glare from train window

The joy of seeing this! I have really missed ice. It’s just not a thing here.

I think I might have been spoiled by my hotel room views on this trip!

Thanks for traveling with me!