One would not figure that such a joyous looking picture comes with a terrifying backstory. No need to cause alarm, no one was hurt during this adventure. But if certain circumstances played out a different way, then chances are I wouldn’t be here to tell you this story.
To provide some background, myself (in the tan pants), my buddy Steve (red flannel) and my other buddy Sailee (red shirt and blue jacket) went on a road trip from Germany to Lucerne Switzerland. It was just over a 4 hour drive to this beautiful but expensive city. But the best part about its beauty is you don’t have to usually pay anything to see it and enjoy it. That’s why we decide to find a beautiful hike that wouldn’t cost us much comparatively to some of the other things we could do in the area. It also wasn’t the only stop on our journey. We were heading for Milan after this stop so we only had about two days in this city. I am sure you are wondering where we stayed in such an expensive city and no we didn’t set up a tent and camp. We went with the more classy route.
The Blue Rose was our saving grace. Not only was she tough enough to stand up to the mountains and rolling hills of Germany and Switzerland, but she was fitted with a perfectly sized bed for 3-4 people. That’s right a sleeper van! The Blue Rose was an absolute tank of a vehicle for us, not only did she pur but also squealed. But that was because she probably needed some new breaks for this adventure due to all the downhill breaking either way we made it work!
After we arrived late into the night of Lucerne we parked in a parking lot and slept there for the night, it wasn’t until the morning we realized that the view. I awakened early due to pure adventure excitement and to hopefully see the sun rise. Which did not disappoint, it turns out we parked our van just shy of Lake Lucerne where a mere 100 feet to the waters edge. Showing the big and mighty Mount Pilatus across the lake with with the sun bathing it in light and the moon still out to say hello just next to the peak of it. With that the towns and the city of Lucerne stretching around the bottom of the lake of crystal blue ice cold water.
We spent that first half of the day fueling up on cappuccinos and dreams of venture as well as seeing what the city had to offer. But it didn’t take long to