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