At the Toronto Airport
Cynthia's first Weiss Wurst
Start of Trip
Waiting for the S-Bahn
Tergensee
Along the Tergensee
Tourist Information, Tergensee
Examining the Map
Gratituous Off-Roading
Waiting for Dinner
Gafthof Batzenhausl
Starting off
Bike Path
Gulash Soupp
Coming down to Jenbach
Looking back at Vomperberg
Tiroler G'röstl
Loading up the Van
Train to Zurich
Zurich Hauptbahnof
Bikes on Trains
Reichenbach Falls
Zwirgi Dinner
Kalterbrunnen
Post Bus!
Rosenlaui Valley
Cynthia rides towards Rosenlaui
Andreas and Piaw
Enjoying morning tea at Rosenlaui
Christine Kehrli's bookp
Road sign at Rosenlaui
Christine and Piaw
Hotel Rosenlaui
Giant Cowbell
Along the Brienzersee's South Side
BrienzerSee
View from Meiringen Valley
Roadside Waterfalls
The grade steepens!
First view of the top of the pass
The climb turns snowy
Last Stretch
The summit lake is still iced over
Grimsel Descent
Grimsel view from Gletsch
View from Hotel Belvedere
Kyle Williams
Roger England
Yet another flat
St. Gotthard Summit Lake
Phil survives the flying hairpin
On the way to Bellinzona
Water fountain!
Yes, Bellinzona has 3 castles in one city
Looking towards San Bernadino
San Bernardino Summit Lake
Swiss Bike Paths are frequently unpaved
Tourist trap cascade
A small town with 5 hotels and countless fountains
Dina Schaller
Bike paths in Switzerland are well marked
Picnic on the Wallensee
Stefanie Raez
Wallensee
The bikepath gets its own tunnel
Up close and personal with the Wallensee
Emerging from the bike path tunnel
Linthal Morning
Urnerboden Valley
Climbing Klausen Pass
View from Hotel Posthaus Urigen
High end touring bike: Rohloff Hub, Schmidt generator hub. Suspension seat, brooks saddle
Note the waterfall to the side of the tunnel
Series of tunnels
Lammi Restaurant Lunch
Hotel Alpenblick
Grindelwald
Totoro admires the scenery
Eiger North
Self Service Cheese Kiosk (Solar Powered)
Kleine Scheidegg
Grosse Scheidegg from Kleine Scheidegg
The Swiss are so organized, they label meeting spots
View from Hotel Room
So much to see, everywhere
That was good ice tea, but too little of it
Paragliding in the Alps
In the shadow of the alps
Bachalpsee
Phil contemplates the Alps
Descending from First
Storm clouds gather
Running from the storm
Riding in the shadow of the Eiger
Phil makes it with vim
View of the Glacier
The Hut
Sitting on an icefield
Rosenlaui is decorated Belle Epoch style.
All together again
Evening light
River muddy with runoff
Mist rises from the trees
Grosse Scheidegg
Once again, the Eiger
Andreas in his new electric car
Phil carries his new hiking shoes on his saddlebag
Loading bikes onto the train in Meiringen
Luzern
Entire families go touring together in Switzerland
On the Zurichsee
Rooftops look like something out of a Miyazaki movie... then I realized that he saw these types of roofline before making his movies...
Painted house
Sign in youth hostel bathroom
Covered bike bridge
The Bodensee Radweg
Evening on the Bodensee
Pedestrain zone, no bike riding
A self-contradictory set of signs
An early start
Entering Austria, Farewell Switzerland
The car entrance to Austria is much more formal
Nobody expects a town called "Hard" to be on level ground!
Dunch touring bike, with the distinctive suitcase rack bag.
They start them out young
No summit sign
Meatless: with bacon!
Need a beer for tomorrow's 18% grades
What this doesn't tell you is that the flat section is only 200m long. It's followed by 1.5km of 18% grades.
Winklern in the morning
Towards Grossglockner
All the warnings are out when you get onto the Grossglockner highway
1 down, 1 to go
Someone forgot to put on his parking brakes
The Fuschertorl summit is almost perverse
The Glockner is used to market everything!
Fully loaded camping cyclists
The Tauern Radweg is popular among cyclists of all ages
Are you man enough to eat American potato chips?
OK, the hiking trail had too many fences to jump with a tandem
View from Gasthof Gruebl
Gasthof Gruebl
Eggflower Soup
Lisa's vegetarian meal
My Lamm Schnitzel
Rainbow
After the storm
The fog rolls in
Inn River Bike Path
Occasionally, the route is complicated enough to need extra explanation
Rattenberg, the smallest city in Austria. Population: 450
The local club meets for an evening ride
The mountains fall away as you approach Germany
Cafe Hell
Brown...
Thiersee
Back to Germany!
Kabab & Fries
Kebab and Rice
Bread wth minced meat filling
Marienplatz Sunday Evening
Chris Brown and Piaw
Chris Brown and Lisa
He got a bit warm, so took off his jacket and put it in his basket.
There's no escape from Hello Kitty
Yes, a cyclist in a bow tie
Alan Wissenberg and Piaw
Alan Wissenberg, GM for EurAide
The proprietess of the Hotel Rossli Goschenen
