Now that we have The Sound of Music stuck in your heads… Remember when we said the village we’re staying in can only be reached by two-hour hike or cable car? Well, the tiny konsum (store) in Gspon is closed until the end of October, so we rode the cable car down to Staldenreid to take advantage of the supermarket…and then hiked back up to Gspon. For 2+ hours. At probably a 45-60% grade the entire time, with groceries. Calling it “tough” is putting it lightly. On the bright side, (besides getting our exercise in for the day month) we found a huge patch of wild raspberries that Josh and I returned to on Tuesday; Dorothee and Stephan had gone on a walk in the opposite direction, and, unbeknownst to us, had gathered a whole bag of wild blueberries, so we combined our fruitful (ha!) efforts into a completely hand-made galette (aka pie) for dessert. YUM. Today we took a less strenuous hike via the “Gspon Panoramaweg” (“weg” is like “path”; you figure out the rest), a trail that leads out from the village and then doubles back up to the very top of the mountain for unbelievable views of Gspon and the surrounding Alps, all while being surrounded by nothing but rocks, moss, heather, and the occasional pine tree. We concluded our Alpine tour with traditional Swiss fare in one of the two town restaurants, where the owner joined us for a beer after dinner. For now we say goodbye to la Suisse…but for those of you in the know, I’ll see you in Zurich. ;)