Appenzell, Switzerland

We arrived in Zurich Airport today only 7.5 hours after leaving Newark. Because it's so pretty here, I've decided to forgo three posts I was going to make:

1. "How not to kill a manual transmission (and nearly your entire family) when taking the wrong turn out of Zurich Airport".
2. "How reverse can get you out of a jam when your road turns into gravel, then grass, and neither first gear nor your husband pushing is enough to get back up a hill in the rain" (that would've been a long one).
3. "The Wrath of The Boy" which delved into the antics the boy used to punish us for refusing to allow neither an iPod, nor video games on the trip (Examples include:reading from the Amtrak Cafe Cart Menu loudly, eating one bite of each French Fry at Chili's to prevent the homeless from getting his unwanted food, repeating "I am a monster" in German after each announcement from the Swiss flight attendants, etc).

It stopped raining as soon as we wound our way up a road that is technically two-way, but only wide enough for one car at a time. The shower costs 1 Swiss Franc ($1.04) for 3.5 minutes of hot water, but the staff is great, camping only costs $40 per night, and when the kids aren't fighting, you can hear the bells on the cows grazing nearby.

We will stay here two nights, then head to Austria.

© 2012 Nicole Wirth
Author of:  Letters to Salthill