I'm now in Zermatt, Switzerland after hiking 22 mikes and gaining about 4000 feet to be here. I just drank a half liter each of beer and lemon tea and am starting to feel a little recovered. Leave your address in the comments or email me (kuesterj@gmail.com) if you want a postcard!
I will be much more able to update now that I'm on my own and can just jump on free wifi connections.
Over the last two weeks I've been in Norway for Colin's amazing wedding, driving straight through Denmark, visiting our friend Fitti in Germany, viewing the windmills and dikes in holland, exploring many of the castles along he Rhine river, seeing Burg Eltz and the Aachen and Trier cathedrals, wandering all over the former fortified city of Luxembourg, and finished out with a beeline to Zermatt by train to enjoy the clear weather to see the Matterhorn.
Next up I will be going to sone waterfall on the Rhine suggested to me by a Lebanese man on the train to Basel, and visiting Karin and her sister Kendra in Munich. Stay tuned!
Also, I have posted some pictures at picasaweb.google.com/kuesterj and will post more when I'm on an actual computer instead of my iPod since I can't get pictures from my camera.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Departure
8/11/09
Note: Sometimes I will add my own custom dates to these entries to identify when I wanted to post them. If the date in the text does not match the date on the blog, then I was probably having too much fun that day to go to a computer and write about it. This should theoretically mean they are more interesting.
The most interesting thing to happen this day could have occurred at any time, and was not at all related to travel. I was caught under the harmful effect second-hand pepper spray. A total bro at the Fedex store was messing with his girlfriend's pepper spray not realizing what it was, and then managed to set it off and caused everyone in the store to fits of coughing and watery eyes. Even though he held the door open, it did not dissipate for over 5 minutes, and everyone looked as though they'd just become victims of chemical warfare.
After leaving there I went to the airport and departed at 4:30pm for Oslo via Iceland on Icelandair. The flight was very safe because the Icelandic Police and Fire & Rescue sports teams were just returning from a competition up in BC. Anyone who tried anything would immediately feel a knee thrust into any painful place it could go. We flew over Canada and Greenland to get to iceland. Despite the cloud cover, I can tell you that Greenland is incredibly beautiful (if you love glacier-coated peaks), but also one of the most forbidding places I have ever seen. Seeing it covered in snow in the early morning was a little eerie.
Note: Sometimes I will add my own custom dates to these entries to identify when I wanted to post them. If the date in the text does not match the date on the blog, then I was probably having too much fun that day to go to a computer and write about it. This should theoretically mean they are more interesting.
The most interesting thing to happen this day could have occurred at any time, and was not at all related to travel. I was caught under the harmful effect second-hand pepper spray. A total bro at the Fedex store was messing with his girlfriend's pepper spray not realizing what it was, and then managed to set it off and caused everyone in the store to fits of coughing and watery eyes. Even though he held the door open, it did not dissipate for over 5 minutes, and everyone looked as though they'd just become victims of chemical warfare.
After leaving there I went to the airport and departed at 4:30pm for Oslo via Iceland on Icelandair. The flight was very safe because the Icelandic Police and Fire & Rescue sports teams were just returning from a competition up in BC. Anyone who tried anything would immediately feel a knee thrust into any painful place it could go. We flew over Canada and Greenland to get to iceland. Despite the cloud cover, I can tell you that Greenland is incredibly beautiful (if you love glacier-coated peaks), but also one of the most forbidding places I have ever seen. Seeing it covered in snow in the early morning was a little eerie.
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