14 September '05, Wednesday.
Toes pushed to the end of our shoes ("I hope I don't lose my toe-nails"), calf and thigh musles burning, and we are only halfway down... We started this day with a great American breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast, and coffee all served at the table on the "patio". Then after dishes were washed, we walked up the hill to the cable car. We are heading to the top of the mountain. This cable car is unique to anything that we have ever been in before. They each hold about 70 people and make the trip up and down while the car is "rotating". This gives everybody a different view as it goes to the top. When we arrived we found a long line ahead of us. Today wasn't quite as clear as yesterday, but the sun was out, so the whole world got up and wanted to make this trip with us. I guess we waited about 45 minutes before we were on the 30 minute ride ourselves. One thing we had to wait for was the mountain bikers...there must have been 40 of them, all dressed for the down-hill and carrying and pushing their fine tuned bikes ahead of us in line. It took 2 cars to leave before all of them had found their way toward the top. By the time we got there, they were all gone. Then there was the tour groups of students from Germany, or was it Austria... Oh well, we got there and we had a good time. The views were as we expected, fantastic. The Italian Alps were just stretched out in front of us and with Lake Garda below...WOW!!! We walked some of the trails for an hour and then grabbed the car back down to the "first" level. We got off there, because there was a restaurant that I wanted to visit. We both had wonderful salads, and then went looking for the hiking trail that would take us the rest of the way down the mountain. The walk was to take us about an hour, so off we went. First of all, it did take us an hour, but that was only because we couldn't hold ourselves back...it was down hill all the way, and I mean DOWN HILL !!! The path was laid with rocks, kind of like "river rocks". They weren't the easiest to walk on and diffinately the toughest to walk down on a steep grade like we were on. When we reached "Bumble Bee", we were happy puppies (and so were our feet)... The only time we actually moved once we got back, was to walk to the top of the driveway and get 2 chicken quarters to barbeque for tonights dinner. We've been wanting a little hike here lately, and I think we accomplished that task today... Tomorrow..."Otzi" the 5,300 year-old man...still in ice...
Toes pushed to the end of our shoes ("I hope I don't lose my toe-nails"), calf and thigh musles burning, and we are only halfway down... We started this day with a great American breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast, and coffee all served at the table on the "patio". Then after dishes were washed, we walked up the hill to the cable car. We are heading to the top of the mountain. This cable car is unique to anything that we have ever been in before. They each hold about 70 people and make the trip up and down while the car is "rotating". This gives everybody a different view as it goes to the top. When we arrived we found a long line ahead of us. Today wasn't quite as clear as yesterday, but the sun was out, so the whole world got up and wanted to make this trip with us. I guess we waited about 45 minutes before we were on the 30 minute ride ourselves. One thing we had to wait for was the mountain bikers...there must have been 40 of them, all dressed for the down-hill and carrying and pushing their fine tuned bikes ahead of us in line. It took 2 cars to leave before all of them had found their way toward the top. By the time we got there, they were all gone. Then there was the tour groups of students from Germany, or was it Austria... Oh well, we got there and we had a good time. The views were as we expected, fantastic. The Italian Alps were just stretched out in front of us and with Lake Garda below...WOW!!! We walked some of the trails for an hour and then grabbed the car back down to the "first" level. We got off there, because there was a restaurant that I wanted to visit. We both had wonderful salads, and then went looking for the hiking trail that would take us the rest of the way down the mountain. The walk was to take us about an hour, so off we went. First of all, it did take us an hour, but that was only because we couldn't hold ourselves back...it was down hill all the way, and I mean DOWN HILL !!! The path was laid with rocks, kind of like "river rocks". They weren't the easiest to walk on and diffinately the toughest to walk down on a steep grade like we were on. When we reached "Bumble Bee", we were happy puppies (and so were our feet)... The only time we actually moved once we got back, was to walk to the top of the driveway and get 2 chicken quarters to barbeque for tonights dinner. We've been wanting a little hike here lately, and I think we accomplished that task today... Tomorrow..."Otzi" the 5,300 year-old man...still in ice...