As you might have guessed, we're already home and have been for over a week now. But we didn't get around to writing anything on Sunday or Monday because we were busy doing some climbing and then driving home. Sunday morning we got up and went to have breakfast and...
We're back from our short vacation in Switzerland. All in all, Ayla did great and we were really happy that she was so relaxed during the trip. She slept during a major portion of the ride home and has slept a lot the few hours we have been home which we expected...
We're not really sure at the moment that Ayla is having all that much fun on this vacation so far. Yesterday we drove from Frankfurt to Locarno, Switzerland, which meant about 7 hours in the truck traveling. She's always great during car rides but we could tell she...
This morning we were the first ones at Arcegno, a pretty nice area with a couple of routes in our range. Since we haven't climbing in about a year due to getting the dog, buying the farm and other things that took up our time, we basically have to stick to the easiest...
We arrived without incident in Locarno yesterday. We didn't take Ayla with us when we checked in but we ran into the owners over the course of the afternoon anyway. They didn't seem too alarmed by her size although she massively dwarfed their 4 kg Chihuahua.After we...
We didn't actually see any accidents or anything but we did slow down quite a bit while in the tunnel. So now we'll all take a quick break, call the apartment owners to let them know we're cutting close and take a potty break...and then get on our way. Only about an...
We're waiting at the lights to go into the Gotthard tunnel...finally! It should be smooth sailing from here. We'll make another switch on drivers after this since all the stop and go has killed S's legs...so we'll make a quick pit stop at the first place we find after...
Well, it's almost 1 pm and we're not yet to Locarno. We've got 102 km left according to TomTom which should only take us about an hour...but we're a few km from the start of the tunnel with full traffic jam. The problem is that they regulate the number of cars that go...
So we're on our way to Locarno and are about half way there. Our navigation system says we have a little less than 3 hours left which would get us there at about 1 pm. With any luck, this will actually turn out to be true and we can perhaps get in a bit of climbing in...
We've packed up our climbing gear and most of the stuff for the dog. I've also started packing my travel and overnight bags but hubby is waiting until we go to bed....which will be very shortly. We're planning to get up at about 5 am and hope to be on the road by 6....
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