Vacation Day 15: Monday, Ride the Aerosa Express to Aerosa then Cross the Splügenpass into Italy.

Today was our last day in Switzerland. We went to the Bahnhof to catch the Aerosa express  only to learn a bus had replaced the train. We went anyway & soon learned the train was running most of the way.  As we neared Aerosa, we traveled into a real snow storm---almost 10 cm on the ground. After Aerosa, we departed Chur and crossed the Splügenpass into Italy with almost a meter of snow on the ground.  Traveling near Milano we drove to Verona & spent the night at the Holiday Inn Ost.

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	Beau & Kit at the Hauptbahnhof before our last train ride in Switzerland.  View Picture: [200k]   [1MB]		Here are Beau & Kit by the Obersee in the middle of this summer snow storm.  View Picture: [200k]   [1MB]
	A very old sequoia tree in front of the Rhatishchebahn HQ building in Chur.  View Picture: [200k]   [1MB]		Here is a picture of our rental car in the middle of a summer Alps snow storm in Splügenpass.  View Picture: [200k]   [1MB]
	Map of the region showing Splügenpass, Lago di Montespluga and the town of Stuetta.  View Picture: [300k]		Here I am freezing by our rental car at the Swiss/Italian border.  View Picture: [200k]   [1MB]
	Kit & Beau by the car in Splügenpass.  View Picture: [200k]   [1MB]		Lago di Montespluga, near Stuetta Italia, about 7 km from the pass.  View Picture: [200k]   [1MB]
	Carl, Jennie & Beau by the Lago di Montespluga.  View Picture: [200k]   [1MB]		A nice view of the Italian Alps near Lago di Montespluga.  View Picture: [200k]   [1MB]
	Not far down the pass, we viewed this waterfall in Pianazzo Italia.  View Picture: [200k]   [1MB]		Another map showing the town of Pianazzo about 13 km below Splügenpass.  View Picture: [200k]   [1MB]

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Carl Nelson