Road Trip Day 5 - not really road tripping anymore in Switzerland

This morning we were up and ready to go at 7am. These early mornings may eventually kill me, but for the moment I think it is a good thing. We went with Beas uncle, Werner, for a wander in the hills behind the town. It was really good to be out and about in the forest. 

We kept an eye out for critters but didn't find much other than some big ass slugs. At the top we built a campfire and cooked saveloy over it for breakfast. Here is a nice unflattering picture of Bea and Grant doing just that.

We needed to be back by 11am to start cre-arting a heat generating source for cooking food over. After Grant and I had demonstrated our fire cre-arting abilities on the top of the hill, Werner deemed us capable of getting the BBQ going while he left for supplies. We were very successful, and Werner was even more successful at cooking some beautifully marinated pork steaks. Two of Beas aunties came over for lunch and we had a great time having a yarn as everyone had done quite a bit of travel and they had all been to New Zealand.

Just before dinner I decided I would do some exploring by trying out a new fad called jogging. I think its a soft J, apparently you just run for an extended period of time. I was initially intending to follow some local knowledge directions but at the halfway point only 8 min had elapsed, so I thought I would add some filler. I headed off down some random road and made arbitrary decisions at all the forks in the road. Unfortunately it got extremely muddy and overgrown, which slowed progress down quite a bit. Then the path ran out completely. hmmm. I decided that going back the way I came would be too boring so I decided I might try a bush bash. So I headed down a steep slope to the right of the road for about 600m and kept trying to remember dead trees and stuff so that I could find my way back. I eventually came back on to a good gravel track. Up the road another 20min I found a couple of weird ass wooden instrument things. One was vertical and the other was horizontal. They consisted of a bunch of different sized pieces of wood and you bashed them with a wooden hammer to make a musical echo in the valley. Smashing stuff. I thought I should probably head home at this point but I also didn't want to take the same route back, so I did some exploratory probing of small tracks to see if they went where I wanted to go. I was heartened at one intersection by a sign that said Pfungen so that was good, I thought I should be able to follow the ridge back to the table where we cooked saveloys in the morning. Turns out I had pretty good bearings because I stumbled across it and found a mountain biker. After a quick chat he told me he was geo-caching and had found a cache hidden just beside where we cooked our breakfast! I asked him if I could take a travel bug because I could take it to Scotland or Canada and he reckoned that was a good idea. So now I have a wee panda guy with me for some travels. Awesome huh?

We ate some tasty pork things and eggs for dinner. I didn't know you could have eggs that tasted so damn good, I wonder what they feed the chickens, rainbows and diamonds I suspect. After dinner there was some playing of a dice game called "Maya" where you basically just accuse people of lying all the time. These guys would love spies but unfortunately we didn't have enough people.

Bed now as we have an early start at 5am tomorrow to beat the traffic and have enough time in the mountains. Looks like crap weather unfortunately. Meow.