Missing pieces

Here’s some things I haven’t included yet. Little behind the scenes moments that made the road trip real. Because, let’s be honest, the fun spots and highlights are great, but theres things that link those times together, that can sometimes be hectic. Kind of like the bloopers page .

We get here and realize because of the time zone difference, we had booked our rental car for the day earlier. It definitely caused a conversation, and a few extra euros.

We get to the castle and realize that they never sent us a confirmation email when we paid. And a credit card receipt wasn’t enough, denying us entrance to the cool inside of the place.

Had a hard time keeping the goodies that needed to stay cold, cold. And then being reminded that anything cardboard or unsealed will get full of melted ice water.

Andermatt definitely took some figuring out. This means walking up to random strangers and hoping they are understanding enough to point you in the right direction. There is also very awkward instances when you don’t understand people you’re dealing with and do stuff exactly the opposite of what they say. And the awkward conversations that ensue.

The first part of the day at andermattt was extremely foggy, with visibility at about 20 ft. In front of you. With hundreds of little kids to watch out for on the slopes to take to the top of the mountain. This was when it already had cleared off a lot

Coby was the only one who actually bought and brought an adapter for the electrical receptacles. This meant charging battery packs and every electronic piece either in the car or when others weren’t using it. Because, of course, we were too lazy to buy one ourself.

Cooking all of our soggy snow clothes in the in room sauna. Which made the apartment very toasty, as it was one wall over from our bedroom.

We drive to this spot approximately, when we learned the ferry was down. Which meant we had to drive clear around the lake on tight roads to reach our Airbnb.

This unique bathroom didn’t seem to have an overabundance of hot water. Which became a problem when raided by four American men who enjoyed long hot showers. Some boys took some cold showers.

Having to put up with weird cars lol

The poor little washer who refused us entrance to clean clothes inside. And took 2 hours to wash a single load. Did I mention the door refused to open? Very stubborn washers over here. About had to travel on without my wardrobe.

A picture of us trying to dry laundry in an air bnb who didn’t have a dryer.

Weirded out by a parade in Florence.

Finding our way to the dock, through customs, between annoyed workers yelling at us, onto the ship around the very end, to find our seats, and then try to sleep in them turned out to by a little more than we bargained for. Oh and the people right behind us had two of the most high maintenance dogs I’ve encountered for a while. They weren’t yet acquainted with each other, and, were across the aisle from each other which created a lot of degrading dog conversations. The little ankle biter type.

Are taxi driver INSISTED he did not need Google Maps and very adamantly was telling us he was sure this was the yard of the Airbnb we had booked. Sorry buddy it’s actually farther up the hill, it took a while to convince him of that though. And by the time he did back down, we were in a location where we couldn’t load Google Maps.

Jet lag is definitely something to not take for granted, neither is the different foods affect on an unsuspecting stomach. Admittedly I did feel a little bad about what kind of random combinations I threw at it during the trip.

This is the route we took. A little over 24 hours of driving. For interest sake, we were only planning on taking the blue route. The liberty roadtripping allows its participants.

Fun fact. At one point We were 45 min. From where Malania Trump grew up.

I waded through the stream on the far side of the falls which resulted in a cut on the bottom of my foot that I had to hobble on for the rest of the time. And a tourist does a lot of walking.

This air bnb turned out to be an attic above a house that was being lived in. Added a different dimension. See top two little windows by chimney.

This spot was the coolest place that we ate supper at. But turned out to be a long wait in a temperature that was a lot colder than we had anticipated. Meaning we were smiling through chattering teeth.

Our poor little ride. Bless its heart. It was new at the beginning of the trip but definitely was returned without that title. Some scrapes and bruises, result of us trying to learn a driving system that is very different than ours. Oh, and we spent probably an hour trying to figure out where to drop this thing off at. Ended up being on the very far top end of a parking garage. Definitely used the “asking random strangers card” on this one. Then came the joy of figuring out how to get from this Siberia to the taxi pickup point.

Random picture of the boys trying to get some pictures in. Lying low to try to get under the surveillance of motion lights that were felling very obedient to there senses at that time. We found a way to adjust them so they would realize the situation wasn’t as serious as they were trying to make it.

The awesome boats we couldn’t rent because the person renting them had went home an hour early. I’ll see if I can come up with any more. It’s definitely what makes a trip memorable and hilarious. We spent a bunch of the time laughing our heads off at the stunned European reactions.