Tour du Mont Blanc
The Tour du Mont Blanc is a 170 km (106 mile) trail through France, Italy and Switzerland. Circumnavigating Western Europe’s highest mountain, Mont Blanc, it is one of the world’s classic multi day treks and is on every serious hiker’s bucket list. I walked this trail with the help of a guide over the course of 10 days in July of 2021. As a flatlander from the plains of Illinois, the going was often times rough, but worth every pain-filled step along the way.
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Geneva, I’m in Love
WHAT-A-CITY. Beautiful, vibrant, international, and in a perfectly-sized package. Geneva is that and so much more. Where to begin? I guess you can put it this way. Luzern is that picture perfect town you go to visit for a day. Geneva is where you live. Yes, I have a French bias. I’m not going to lie. Understanding what’s going on around me, and being able to communicate again has definitely been a plus. But beyond that. I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t this. From the moment I exited the train station I knew this was my kind of town. Extremely multi-cultural and diverse. It would be easy…
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24 Hours in Luzern
First impressions. This is exactly what I imagined a traditional Swiss city to be. When a conection change forced me to switch my arrival city from Genève to Zurich, my first question was, should I stay in Zurich for the night before moving on? I’m glad I didn’t. A direct train from the airport and an hour later I set foot in one of the most picturesque cities you could ever want to see. The best part was as I was arriving I could see the front entrance of my hotel from the train. Perfect. Exactly what I wanted for a quick layover here. Nice and easy entrance and exit.…
