Our journey today included: a ride up, up, up on a gondola, lunch (PBJs, salami and ham with butter), some family arguments, an hours-long stroll across a small jag in the Alps, a train ride, coats on then coats off, the sun on our face, and blue in the sky. But — our journey today was...

This screen shot memorializes a crucial dinner prep moment this week in Switzerland. We were aiming high — cheese fondue! — but we needed help with a translation on a food package. H kindly typed in the French — and voila! — “Pour the contents...

We were in the thick of heart-exploding beauty today. Here are four shots of “our peaks” presiding over the day — from sunrise to...

This is the scene from our World School table today in the Swiss Alps — including some bananas, a handwriting workbook, a dry erase board with coordinates, S’s Bible and devotional book, salt and pepper shakers, a map, a beloved stuffed animal, some pencils, and a pocket...

For our records, we’ve started producing digital maps of our country travels. There’s a new MAPS button above on the masthead. We’ll keep adding maps as we finish them … and as we travel.

Good Morning, Swiss Alps! The view from H’s...

Our family heritage lessons continued today with a stop in Heidelberg, Germany — once home to Gigi and Poppy, birthplace of Uncle Donald, and original location of the SuperBleiFrei dance by S and J seventeen years ago, recreated this afternoon. The dance moves will not be on the...

Sarah and Jean treated us to pure Swiss dinner fare this evening: a meal of RACLETTE. Artisanal cheese was heated up inside a table-top grill, then poured hot over boiled potatoes … and sweetened with vinegar-heavy baby corn and onions. The adults enjoyed Swiss wine, made from grapes...