Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 1

Weather: Warm & Sunny

  • 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

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Cappuccino to hold off the jet lag, Leica to grab sights walking around Zurich.

Cappuccino in a One Lounge branded cup on a saucer, beside a Leica camera with leather strap, on a dark wood bar counter.

It was cool to see UBS prominently marketing their Bitcoin offerings in Zurich airport.

Bitcoin Suisse branded display signs in Zurich airport terminal with travelers walking in the background.

Hello 👋 from Amsterdam 🇳🇱 for about an hour. Heading on the KLM Cityhopper to Zurich 🇨🇭.

Family of four smiling for a selfie at Gate B30 in Amsterdam Airport, with a KLM flight board visible overhead. KLM Cityhopper Embraer 190 aircraft PH-EXW parked on the tarmac at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol with boarding stairs attached.

Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 0

Weather: Very nice warm day.

  • 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.

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Starting our summer vacation. Boarding flight to Zurich with a stop in Amsterdam. ✈️

Family of four smiling for a selfie at a busy airport gate F12, wearing backpacks and ready to board.

Up late setting up Tammy’s new Apple Watch Series 8 before we leave for vacation.

Apple Watch Series 8 in starlight aluminum with a red braided solo loop band, showing an analog watch face

The #TeamSPS Coffee Guild met today and Rob Rutscher brought in his Decent Espresso machine along with the Niche Zero grinder and served up delicious coffee for folks today. Brought a lot of joy. ☕️

Smiling barista in apron leans over a red counter to operate an espresso machine beside a laptop and coffee grinder Barista in a green apron holds a portafilter next to a smiling man with a coffee cup, standing at a red espresso bar counter

I’m not particularly enthusiastic about Bluesky but I do have it setup and have micro.blog syndicating my posts. I do like how Bluesky supports using your domain as your profile name and was happy to set that up. You can find @jamie.thingelstad.com and @weekly.thingelstad.com.

Needed two more sets of hiking poles for our trip to Switzerland. Tyler and I went to REI and after consulting with the hiker in the store decided on LEKI sticks. I got the Makalu Cork Lite and he got the Lhasa.

Four trekking poles on a white surface, two LEKI pairs with cork grips alongside two older REI Ultralite aluminum pole pairs.