Interlaken

I should be writing about both interlaken and octoberfest right now, but its been 48 hours after the big event and the mere mention of booze still brings tears to my eyes and a churn in my stomach. Thats going to have to wait until tomorrow.

As for Interlocken, Im pretty sure thats where they got the idea for Busch Gardens, except this is meant for adults. The city is probably the cleanest Ive traveled too, the scenery is poetic, and the town is very quaint. It also helps because the Swiss Franc looks like a huge game token, but the good kind, not the crappy kind like you'd get at an arcade. For those of you who read my last entry you know that I missed my first train into the city, which rendered me useless in terms of really exploring this outdoor paradise. People flock from all over the world to go canyoning, hang gliding, paragliding, sky diving, and many more extreme adventures that make the X Games look like knitting lessons.

What I really wanted to do was the canyoning, where you start off at the top of a canyoning and pretty much travel down it by repelling off rocks, free diving, etc. Ive been having a bit of knee trouble since my Tri though, so I thought better of it and was just going to rent a mountain bike for the day and hit the trails. Milan's transit, however, had different plans for me. Im trying to look at it on the positive side though, that being that now I have an excuse to come back and the scenery was well worth it. I seriously could have been on the train for a week just looking at the alps and the lakes and been as content as Ive ever been.

As you can probably tell by my rambling, misspellings, and various other errs, my mind isnt really at full capacity. I promise octoberfest entry will be better and Ill probably put that up tomorrow.