We are back from our mini vacation and I am excited to say our seeds are partially sprouting. Very good! They survived the 3.5 days without watering and seem to be doing quite well. We didn’t really consider that when we planted the seeds – woops. But some of these seeds are actually already showing […]

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 was happy to be out ofthere. When […]

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 routes. Unfortunately, […]

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 got settled in, we decided to head […]

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 hour left.