2004-10-17 | Lucern,SwitzerlandAfter the super long train ride from Prague to Switzerland I finally arrivedin Zurich. I had 9 minutes to get to my connection train and as I rushedover there, I made a phone call to this girl who I talked to the nightbefore about possibly staying at her place. Since I didn't get a hold of her,I decided to just rush to the connection and hang out in Lucern. I barelymade it.

Once I arrived in Lucern, some backpackers had the same backpack as meand I said, hey nice pack as I walked past them. They probably thought Isaid"hey nice rack" or something. But come to find out they were staying in thesame hostel as me. So we bumped into each other and walked around the city.

Now let me tell you.... Lucern is really amazing and I am glad to notspend time in the big industrial city of Zurich. Everything here is sopristine and calm. The weather is not cold at all here. The view can mostlybe

2004-10-18 | Interlaken,SwitzerlandMatt and I decided to head out to Interlaken this morning. The scenic routewas pretty amazing and I took a ton of short video clips. It was so amazingto see the color of the water, it was a dark teal and was totally unlikeanything I have ever seen. The buildings are so small and unique inSwitzerland. Basically everything is a small town and you cant even countthe number of wooden houses in any given town. SEE YOUR POSTCARDS if you areone of those select individuals who gets regular postcards.

Once we arrived in Interlaken, we felt lost and pissed because wecouldn't find one single street on the map. Come to find out there are twotrain stations here in this small town and our bearings were all messed up.Our packs were definitely weighing more for we had to walk nearly a milewith them on. The one good thing is that we were walking

2004-10-19 |Grindelwald,SwitzerlandWe woke up and I immediately went to the bank, the post and shopping. Ibought a Swiss army knife. The thing is freaking bad ass (notice the Renneengraving). It has everything a hard working man needs. Even a lighter whichis really powerful. When asked for what I want engraved, I wasn't selfish byputting my first name. I put Renne so that my children can use it to burntheir hands and scare their mom with them and their first knife.

After that we went to the bike shop to start our adventure sport wechose. This was probably the most bang for our buck and was the best decisionbecause the weather was pure crap today. It took about 30 minutes to get teebikes but it was worth it because the bikes were great mountain bikes thatwould work great for riding down the alps in the rain. We rode to the trainstation and then received info on how much it will cost us to ride up oneway with bikes. but it was too

2004-10-22 | The Eastern Coast,ItalyI am putting one entry for the 21st and 22nd.

Most of our morning was consumed by packing up and checking out of thehotel. We found a new hotel in Venice and also stopped by at the internetcafe, doing research on Greece and also catching up on emails.

We finally figured out the exact schedule for Greece because we have beenthrowing around dates and ferry locations for a while. We figured the bestbet was to go to Corfu instead of Athens first. We spent some time in linesat the train station getting the best deal and booking stuff. We also had 30hours of travel ahead of us so we invested some cash on food.

But for the most part, the last day in Venice consisted of a lot ofshopping. We really just wandered. We mostly went down this famous shoppingdistrict. It was quite uneventful, but fun and Matt and I joked around a lotas