03:37 Europe time 18:37 California time
Paul: Quick camping trip up to the San Diego hills
Paul: This campground usually has some cool waterfalls that kids can
splash around in, but dry in late Summer
Paul: Got up to 90 today (normal would be a high of 76), but not bad in
the shade, and it's down to low 80s at 6:30P and should fall to 60
tonight
05:21 Europe time 20:21 California time
Ray: That looks like a nice outdoor playground for the kids
Ray: You're not looking at your phone in bed, are you, Dusty? How is
your eye?
05:26 Europe time 20:26 California time
Dusty: Eye is not worse, which is all I'm asking for right now
Dusty: Lots of floaties.
05:27 Europe time 20:27 California time
Ray: I just got back from Camelback
Ray: ASU is playing San Diego State and I saw some fireworks on the way
home
05:28 Europe time 20:28 California time
Ray: I have floaties all the time
Ray: Did you have them before? (Don't reply if it strains your eye -
you better be careful!)
Dusty: I've had floaties occasionally all my life, not like this though
- 100x as much, then 1000s of tiny (barely visible) dark spots which I
assume were blood in my eye
Dusty: I will try to avoid surfing the web nonstop...
Dusty: but doing nothing for 2 weeks won't be easy
Dusty: Bad eye can't see squat now, hopefully brain learns to ignore it
for a while.
05:36 Europe time 20:36 California time
Ray: I went through much of junior year in high school with one contact
lens - your brain should adapt
Ray: But I read that eyes heal quickly so you'll probably be seeing
decently soon
Ray: Speaking of surfing, is it the same eye you injured while surfing
Ross' Cove?
05:42 Europe time 20:42 California time
Dusty: only surfed Ross' Cove once or twice (scary enough)
Dusty: My biggest surfing injury was in Pacifica, nailed with fin of my
own board on top of my head while underwater, nearly knocked me out...
Dusty: lots of blood, quick ER trip
And a few stitches, only afterwards did i realize that the ER doc
hadn't even asked me about concussion or symptoms (though he did tell
me not to surf for a week for concussion related reasons without
getting into it)
Dusty: That was 2 days after 9/11, 20y ago tomorrow
Dusty: I also rolled an ankle another time stepping off the board...
05:43 Europe time 20:43 California time
Dusty: I do remember a bad black eye surfing now, don't remember where
i got it
05:43 Europe time 20:43 California time
Dusty: Different eye
05:45 Europe time 20:45 California time
Dusty: I read it can take weeks / months for eyes to recover from this
stuff, and sometimes you never regain your previous vision
Dusty: Opthamologist said you're generally ok as long as retina doesn't
detach / tear in the center of vision (eye) that sounds really really
bad
07:25 Europe time 22:25 California time
Ray: Mike had something like that and they held the retina in with a
nitrogen bubble
Ray: I remember a photo of your eye filled with blood from a surfing
endo
Ray: 10-12 years ago?
08:51 Europe time 23:51 California time
Dusty: I haven't surfed in 10-12y, probably closer to 15-20
06:33 Switzerland time 22:33 California time
My last morning in the Alps... wah!!!!
I'd been in Switzerland so long all of this was now my new normal...
I reluntantly started my journey home, taking the 3h train to Zurich...
09:59 Switzerland time 01:59 California time
10:05 Switzerland time 02:05 California time
12:20 Switzerland time 04:20 California time
My room at the Hotel Adler was ready...
12:21 Switzerland time 04:21 California time
Once I got to the room I collapsed for a while and tried to take it
easy.
Easier said than done.
Dusty: In Zurich doing very little other than waiting for 7am flight to
Frankfurt tomorrow...
Dusty: eye is about the same
15:10 Europe time 06:10 California time
Ray: no sightseeing today! your legs need a rest anyway.
15:12 Europe time 06:12 California time
Kent: Monza gp just started
Kent: Everybody in Italy, and probably most in Switzerland should
be watching now.
15:16 Europe time 06:16 California time
Dusty: I'm in the heart of Zurich, right in the middle of Rick Steves
walk
Dusty: I'll check out thr nearby church, none of the rest of it
sounds compelling
Coming into a real city was a bit of an unwelcome shock
Dusty: Where are my alps????!!!! Wah!
Dusty: I saw 2 races on tv already finish in the hour or so, just found
what appears to be formula 1 so that must be it...
Dusty: No clue what race I'm watching in Italian, in English I could
probably verify that i was watching the right race..
15:18 Europe time 06:18 California time
Dusty: Hotel Adler - second time I've used Agonda cause it was cheaper,
i was sure something would go wrong but no problemo....
15:19 Europe time 06:19 California time
Dusty: Legs are ok
Dusty: Brain and eye are a bit fried
15:19 Europe time 06:19 California time
Kent: You observed f2 and f3 races likely
Kent: Those are the warm ups for the main event
Kent: The f1 race
Kent: This season is as good as a close Tdf, except stages are
separated by a week
15:20 Europe time 06:20 California time
Dusty: Different cars, they weren't anything like f1 cars, more like
porsches
15:24 Europe time 06:24 California time
Kent: Oh
Kent: Maybe prime the pump
Kent: Monza is live now
Kent: I woke up at 7 to watch it
15:25 Europe time 06:25 California time
Dusty: I saw the name Hamilton, pretty sure I'm watching it...
Dusty: but it's still all in Italian :)
15:27 Europe time 06:27 California time
Dusty: Funny how I'll watch German mash reruns when thats the only
thing on tv I recognize (few days ago)
Dusty: I can remember eye floaters from my very earliest childhood, it
seemed nobody knew what i was talking about and everyone thought i was
crazy
15:43 Europe time 06:43 California time
Kent: Was just like the 2 leaders of Tdf taking each other out of the
race
Kent: F1 history right there.
15:45 Europe time 06:45 California time
Dusty: I know enough about f1 to recognize the other name, wasnt he
claiming a few weeks ago Hamilton took him out?
Dusty: This looks like Verstappens fault on replay, quite a walk of
shame the way i see it
15:46 Europe time 06:46 California time
Dusty: Missed the actual incident but sure as hell heard the excited
Italian and turned to look right after
15:46 Europe time 06:46 California time
Kent: You got that 100% wrong
Kent: You must give a car width if car is beside
Kent: :)
15:47 Europe time 06:47 California time
Ray: Maybe today should be your heaviest drinking day.
15:48 Europe time 06:48 California time
Kent: Hamilton has been at fault both crashes
Kent: He's got big $$$$ Mercedes drive and has won 7 world
championships
Kent: Fighting with max Verstappen for it this year
Kent: Closest race in over a decade.
15:49 Europe time 06:49 California time
Dusty: It would be except the eye, believe me
Dusty: I have 2 beers in the room I brought with from Davos, im
sipping one slowly...
Dusty: if i drink too early I'm an even bigger mess than usual
Dusty: Goes to show how little i know about racing
15:53 Europe time 06:53 California time
Kent: It's as ruley as any euro sport like the Tdf
Kent: Have nice last night! I like to see the sunset
the last day but g-loading your eye may not be a good idea!
15:55 Europe time 06:55 California time
Paul: Wakey wakey
15:56 Europe time 06:56 California time
Ray: Love the desert in the morning.
15:57 Europe time 06:57 California time
Paul: Glorious
Paul: More so because I can now get the boys to do a ton of the camp
tear down
16:00 Europe time 07:00 California time
Dusty: Alps were beautiful for first 90+ min of train, clouds along the
mountains, lake Zurich was cloudy....I've had sun breakthrough a few
times.
I am literally a sun worshipper
Dusty: If the sun is not out, i will not have a good day, it is
pretty much as simple as that
Dusty: This trip has been in pursuit of sunny alps....
Dusty: This is camping in Davos - paying 20chf / night to park your van in the
hotel parking lot...
Dusty: you get access to the lobby bar :)
16:33 Europe time 07:33 California time
Ray: That would be an interesting way to go
Ray: Were there many RVs on the mountain passes?
16:35 Europe time 07:35 California time
Kent: Friend of mine rented an rv with his friends and followed the Tdf
for a week
Kent: He ripped the roof off of it with a low branch and rest of
trip sounded horrible after that.
16:40 Europe time 07:40 California time
Kent: Daniel Ricardo won
Kent: He's known for the spectacle of drinking champagne from his
used driver boot while on the podium.
17:11 Europe time 08:11 California time
Paul: Probably not technically a desert in these mountains (4K-6k ft)
but parts are quite desert-like
17:13 Europe time 08:13 California time
Ray: Ripping the roof off of an RV would be a frustrating problem
Ray: Paul, it's not going to be 108 there today, is it?
Paul's Pic
17:17 Europe time 08:17 California time
Paul: Supposed to be 89 today in the mtns, but we're already packed up
and at out breakfast place before the drive back down to the coast
17:18 Europe time 08:18 California time
Paul: Place was a pharmacy built in 1886 for a little mining town
Paul: It's our go-to.
17:21 Europe time 08:21 California time
Dusty: Engadine (st moritz and davos area) was absolutely full of small
RVs and vans with bikes hanging off the back...
Dusty: all up and down the mountains....
After the race I decided to try to find some of the closest local
attractions that Rick Steves mentions, I've never been in Zurich before
other than to fly in or
out...
I wandered along the nearby River and tried, mostly unsuccessfully, to see sights mentioned by Rick Steves.
That was ok.
I tried.
I can get back to Zurich pretty easily, and even if I don't, its only a city.
Most cities are pretty similar, except for their fine art.
I was ok.
Not ideal, but I was careful and didn't feel like I was
endangering what was left of my vision.
16:24 Switzerland time 08:24 California time
View from my room...
16:24 Switzerland time 08:24 California time
View from my room.
I found dinner without having to use tripadvisor or walk a single step.
Tapas, one of the yummiest meals imaginable, right across street.
I used to fairly regularly search out tapas, but I've almost given up
since it seems it is so hard to find good tapas..
17:30 Europe time 08:30 California time
Dusty: Foie planca, spanish version of foie gras...
Dusty: amazing.....
17:34 Switzerland time 09:34 California time
You know I'm off my game when I don't remember exactly what I ordered.
Some sort of fish on the left - nice, but nowhere near as good as the foie gras.
17:52 Switzerland time 09:52 California time
18:48 Europe time 09:48 California time
Ray: #NotSwitzerland: It's 93 now, temperature rising several degrees per hour
Ray: Hot wind blowing across the parking lot of Back East Bagels, so you know it's going to be a scorcher today
Ray: I'm waiting for Sophie while she makes her weekly bagel run, leaving the car on because the battery was dead this morning.
