Friday July 22: Klausenpass to Altdorf
We awoke to a perfect sunny day!
That night, I’d received an email from the For Dummies people, inquiring whether we wanted to revise and republish Mythology for Dummies. We couldn’t quite believe it had been 20 years since we’d first published that one! Revision seemed like quite a good idea; probably we’d learned some stuff since 2001.
Today was mainly a valley walk but it was not without its challenges. We had to begin by descending a cliffside to get down to the valley. The trail was so loose and steep, it took us two hours to reach the bottom.
We stopped in a little town for coffee. It seemed too early for lunch; we thought we’d get food in the next town. Alas, the rest of the villages were closed, or not yet open for the summer. This is a hazard of “off-season” travel; places can be seriously dead.
It was well into the afternoon when we finally found an café less than an hour from Altdorf. We ordered something called “chili cheese bowls,” which turned out to be fried balls of cheese and peppers. (From the frozen food section….)
We arrived in Altdorf and moved into Hotel Höfli with a couple of hours to spare before dinnertime. I got some work done; I had no intention or time to do substantive work on this trip, but I could at least review designs for my case brief videos.
