Grandparents Motorcycle Tour of 2019 Part Two

Saturday, July 27.

Left hotel in a light rain headed for Interlaken at least it was not hot.    

Veronica getting ready, note the umbrella on the bike. 

Me zipping up my AeroStich jacket. Great riding gear. 

Henry, John, and Julie getting ready for the rain.

Becky getting everything watertight. 

This was a long day of riding.  Derek made a wrong turn and he and John had to travel 10 miles to get back on track. We waited for them and used our cell phones and the Cardo headsets to get back together. We would be riding in and out of the rain this day. 

GPS is not always your friend. We thought we should have turned toward Switzerland by now. Getting near the time for lunch so used the GPS to find a restaurant. GPS took us to this parking lot.  

Just no open restaurant here. We looked at the GPS map and decided to drive on and look for any place to eat. We found a McDonalds making Julie happy.  Seems like McD's are everywhere, they do have a little different menu in France. 

Everyone ready for some lunch. Enjoying the lack of rain for a little while. 

Julie really did have a good time at McDonald's. 

We were less than 15 miles from Switzerland and decided to take the road up the "Gorges du Pichoux". As we rode up the Gorge the sky opened up and we had some of the hardest rain of our trip. We did not get any pictures but I did find a video on youtube. Just imagine about an inch of water per hour is falling. We had waterfalls everywhere.  As we reached the top of the Gorge the rain stopped. 

Video from Youtube.

Image from the web. 

Just as we were about to enter a tunnel the Swiss police walked out into the street. Dereck got a video of the police. Click here for link. We slowed and were waved through, John and Julie were waved to the side of the road. John got a ticket for a rolling stop, cash payment and he was on his way. We waited on the other side of the tunnel for John and Julie to finish their visit with the Polizei. We had several rest stops along the way. Just after we passed Bern the sky opened up as we approached Interlaken.  We arrived at Hotel De La Paix right at about 5 o’clock.

Had dinner in a nice restaurant that was recommended by our hotel. See pictures for meals.

Long day and we were ready for a good nights rest. 

Sunday, July 28. 

This was a down day as we will be spending two nights at Interlaken. The weatherman says rain today and he is correct. We had a leisurely breakfast at the hotel going over plans for the day.   





Our daughter Jenny and her husband Ryan Peterson came from Basel Switzerland to visit for the day. Their daughter Remie greeted everyone to lunch at our room. 

Derick is a natural grandfather. Remie enjoyed her visit with him.

We went to dinner at another restaurant recommended by the Hotel.

We all listened to Remie tell us the specials for dinner.

Henry with his Swiss Rossie and Sausage.

Ryans lamb shank.

Remie enjoyed dinner and her trip to Interlaken.

Tomorrow the weatherman says no rain. We are hoping he is right as we are riding Alpine passes tomorrow.  Gremselpass, Frukapass, Oberalppass, and Julierpass. Some of Switzerland's finest on our way to St Moritz. All of this and more in Part Three.



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