Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
We made it to our starting/end point for when we do the hike. We started the day in a patisserie and my dad and I shared le petit dejuner which came with a bunch of bread and jams. Also the best orange juice in the world. I only like orange juice when it has pulp […]
Read More Arrivée en Les HauchesTomorrow is the start of our hike! It got pretty real today as we made our way from Chamonix to Les Houches, the unofficial starting point of the TMB. We even bought a paper map of the route at the visitor’s center. This afternoon we doubled checked all the gear. I removed each item from […]
Read More Day 4: Les HouchesOur original plan had us getting to Europe today and starting the hike tomorrow. I’m so glad we’ve had these days to enjoy this corner of the Alps. I am going to embrace Ellie’s idea of turning this into a food blog, at least until we start the hike. (Did you read her last post?? […]
Read More Day 4: Chamonix to Les Houches(This is from yesterdayyyyyty) I feel like I need to make one thing clear 90% of the reason I’m on this trip is for the food. So with that being said my portion of the blog will be turned more into A food blog. So this morning after my parents left for the day Zoe and […]
Read More Day 3This morning Ellie and I had the mission of eating a chocolate croissant and a crepe. The 2 of us left the hotel around 10. We started walking towards the cafe but then impromptuly decided to go to a closer one that looked just as good and was only 50 steps away. We ordered our […]
Read More Chamonix!I have two goals for this trip. 1. Make all the memories as a family, knowing our big summer trips might be coming to an end before too long. 2. Eat and drink all the local delicacies. Check and check. I almost feel like we could go home now. Late yesterday afternoon we arrived at […]
Read More Day 3: ChamonixWhen planning this trip we had originally intended we would fly in today, then some things happened and we decided it made sense to come earlier. That change meant that we were able to spend today in Chamonix! Backtracking just slightly, we also had a delightful evening here last night. We intended to go out […]
Read More Day 3: ChamonixWe are in France!!!! I don’t know how long we have been here but it has been the best 2 days. So far I think that I have eaten all of the food there is to eat and drunken all the drinks there is to drink. We had a quick layover in Lisbon where we […]
Read More Made it!I don’t understand time zones so this is either about day -1 0 1 2 or 3. It started with a early morning wake up from my mom at 930 I was not happy about this cause I’m never happy about being woken up . I finished some packing my backpacking. Then after my shower […]
Read More Day somethingWhat a whirlwind the last day (or 3? it’s been hard to track time) has been! We left Chicago late Monday night and I’m writing this from a bus to Chamonix, FR on Wednesday evening. I’m not going to do a play by play, but I will hit the highlights starting with last night’s dinner. […]
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