Travel Log
- Breakfast at hotel
- Walk from hotel for hike
- Hike begins with a gentle ascent above the treeline
- Walk through amazing village of Grevasalvas
- Break at rocky overlook before descending
- Descend and take path around lake
- Lunch on the trail
- Return to Sils Maria
- Tammy and Mazie do some shopping, buy cool local bowls
- Coffee and snacks at Grond Cafe
- Mazie and Tyler explore
- Tammy and Jamie relax
- Dinner at hotel with delicious Apple Strudel for dessert!
- Hike out of Pontresina through town up the trail
- Sought cover from heavy rain
- Rolling walk with a final ascent to Hahnensee Hut
- Picnic lunch on a rock at Lake Hahnensee
- Descended down to Silvaplana
- Bus from hotel to train station
- Train back to Guarda
- Bus to Guarda Village
- Recover wallet! 🤩
- Bus back to train station.
- Train to Samedan to change lines
- Train to St Moritz to transfer to bus
- Bus to Sils Maria
- Walk out to Nietzsche’s Rock
- Started raining hard so walked to Silvaplana instead of walking back
- All meet together in Silvaplana to catch the bus back to Sils Maria
- Visit the Gallaria Chesina and look at some amazing art
- Shopping at various stores and explore the town
- Dinner at Hotel Edelweiss
- Depart Guarda and take bus to train station
- Take train to Funicular.
- Guide Dave gets a lot of static from the conductor about having the wrong tickets.
- German lady that moved to Switzerland sits across from Tammy and I and starts a lengthy conversation with Tammy.
- Arrive at funicular and take it 1,000 feet up to start hike.
- Huge climb up to Segantini Hütte.
- Delicious lunch. I had Barley Soup.
- Hike traverse from hut through rock field and take upper trail.
- Mad rush down to chair lift before storm shows up and possibly shuts lift down.
- Get on lift and have a slow, cold, stormy, raining, anxiety producing lift ride.
- Rainy walk to hotel.
- Attempt to get cash and fail.
- Shop.
- Dinner at restaurant.
- Downtime in room.
- Jamie realizes that he has lost his wallet and that sort of sucks a bunch.
- Breakfast.
- Jamie asks front desk person to see if they can help with locating wallet. They have some ideas.
- Dave, one of our guides, attempts to find Jamie’s lost wallet by going back to the train station at Ardez. Sadly no luck.
- We take off for todays hike up to Piz Buin.
- Everyone else hikes down on the service road, Jamie takes a mountain scooter and has a blast.
- Jamie gets back early and decides wallet search is over. It is lost, time to move on.
- Tammy and Mazie explore the town and Tammy has an amazing find! 🤩
- Cold therapy for our tired feet.
- Nice dinner at Meisser Hotel.
- Cool evening back in the room, getting ready for an earlier morning tomorrow.
- Breakfast at Hotel Guardaval
- Depart at 9a for day of hiking
- Hike Scuol to Guarda. We ended hike at Ardez and took train and bus to Hotel Messier in Guarda
- Relax with Coca Cola on terrace of Hotel Messier
- Delicious dinner at Hotel Messier
- Breakfast at Motel One
- Took Tram with luggage to Zurich HB
- Stored luggage at station (23-06, 23-09)
- S24 train to Kilchberg
- Visit Lindt Home of Chocolate
- S8 train back to Zurich HB
- Quickly retrieve luggage from storage, only 15 min stop
- Boarded IC909 to Landquart
- Transfer traina to Scuol
- Tammy published her first blog post in over 11 years! 🤩
- Taxi to Hotel Guardaval in Scuol
- Walk around Scuol a bit
- Meet fellow hikers and guides Dave and Erik for dinner
- Delicious four course dinner at hotel
- DL162 land In Amsterdam (10:26a)
- Sit on tarmac for 55 minutes waiting for gate to be available
- Clear passport control
- DL9568 to Zurich
- Landed in Zurich (2:06p)
- Checked in at Motel One Zurich
- Tuk Tuk Fondue Tour
- Walk around old city
- Sleep early, everyonr tired
- Lyft to MSP. Super nice driver.
- Cheeseburgers at Shake Shack. 🍔🍔🍔 Mazie got a quesadilla somewhere else.
- DL162 to Amsterdam departing at 7:50pm.
- Change to Central European Time, ahead 7 hours.
- Tammy and kids head to Magic Kingdom, Jamie hangs back to do some work things.
- Tammy and kids experience “rope drop” at 8:26a into Tomorrowland
- Ride space Mountain
- Ride Seven dwarves mine train not working
- Ride little mermaid
- Ride big thunder mountain railway
- Ride Splash mountain (Tyler sat out)
- Go to enchanted tiki house
- Visit Hall of presidents
- Go to Country bear jamboree
- Jamie rejoins party
- Visit Carousel of Progress
- Have lunch at Be Our guest
- Wish farewell to Magic Kingdom
- Drive to airport
- Flight DL1143 from MCO to MSP.
- Home!
- Check out of Sapphire Falls
- Drive to Polynesian
- Leave luggage at Polynesian
- Take Monorail to EPCOT
- Breakfast at Les Halles Boulangerie-Patisserie
- Kids ride Guardians of the Galaxy (3rd for Mazie, 2nd for Tyler)
- Ride Test Track
- Experience Journey Into Imagination With Figment
- Disney Pixar shorts
- Explore Canada, UK, Morroco, Japan
- Lunch at Via Napoli
- Monorail to magic kingdom
- Ride Peter Pan’s Flight
- Ride Splash Mountain
- Ride Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
- Ride Haunted Mansion
- Ride Space Mountain
- Amazing dinner at Teppan Edo in Epcot
- Monorail back to Polynesian
- Watch the fireworks over castle from the hotel
Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 7
Weather: Very cool in the morning warming up through the day. Very pleasant all around.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 6
Weather: Very cloudy with rain and thunder in morning. Clear through mid-day with additional heavy rain in late afternoon. Then cloudy and cool in the evening.
Split path for first half of today:
Family
Jamie
All Together Again
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 5
Weather: Cooler day. Very windy on the mountains today. Raced to chair lift before storm and lightning arrived.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 4
Weather: Hot and sunny in the morning. Day cooled off a bit and was nicer in the mountains. Evening cool.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 3
Weather: Warm and sunny. Cooler in mountains but still hot and sunny at prime of day. Evening clouds and breeze with much cooler temps.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 2
Weather: Hot and Sunny.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 1
Weather: Warm & Sunny
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 0
Weather: Very nice warm day.
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Disney World Log Day 10
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 9,908
Disney World Log Day 9
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 29,580 Most steps on any day!