Lord willing -- and I really mean that, it's all in the Lord's hands, not mine -- in exactly 3 weeks from today I plan to fly to Geneva to begin my 2025 Alps adventure. Believe it or not, I can fly directly from Raleigh to Frankfurt, and then it's just a short hop over to Geneva. From there I'll take the train to Zermatt, my home base for the next 8 days of running, hiking, and climbing. I'll be staying at this lovely hotel near the train station (bahnhof). It's called (for obvious reasons) the Hotel Bahnhof.
I stayed here when I climbed the Breithorn, Oberrothorn, Matterhorn, and Mammut Klettersteig (Via Ferrata) 9 years ago. On my way home I've got an early Saturday flight out of Geneva so I'll get an Airbnb there on Friday afternoon.
It's called the Chambre au Pâquis à côté du lac." The "lac," of course, is Lac Léman (Lake Geneva). It will be so much fun to speak two of my favorite languages again on this trip -- German and French.
Do you think I ought to visit this unique monument again while I'm in Geneva?
