Summer in full swing

My cousin Jeff is visiting us from Park City, Utah this week, so I get to play Swiss tour guide. It's great fun! So far we've been to Bern, Switzerland's capital and the Rheinfall, a great, big waterfall near the German border. Yesterday we spent the day in Lucerne, where we took a trip to the summit of Mt. Pilatus via steamboat, cogwheel train (the world's steepest!) and gondola. Chantal, a friend that's visiting for the summer, joined us for some of these adventures.

Mt. Pilatus was just a preview. Today Jeff and I leave for Gimmelwald, a tiny town (pop. 140) near Interlaken in the middle of the Alps. We picked Gimmelwald for its great hiking and its rustic accomodations. We plan to stay the night there in a barn where backpackers can stay in the summer when the cows are out to pasture. So we will be "hitting the hay" for real tonight. I'll have the full report later this week. In the meantime, here are some pics from our travels so far...