I started the day in Thun and planned a short ride to Lauterbrunnen Valley as a side trip per the recommendation of my new friend Bernd.
This side trip would allow me to standout of the weather prior to a crossing the Sustenpass which has bad weather on much of the week with a brief respite in the morning Thursday. My plan is to stay in tomorrow as well to regain some strength and then make a short ride in Interkirchen on Wednesday, even in the rain, and then head out.
Once I got to the valley I explored, marveling at something I didn’t even know existed. I went to Trummelbach Falls at the recommendation of my previous nights host.
And then the strangest thing happened while preparing spaghetti. I met someone while trying to figure out how to get the stove to work. We quickly hit it off because I am the most charming person ever. I learned he and two friends were in the area as they’d just photographed a wedding.
After meeting a couple others and prodding with the sort of awful conversational gambits we all became fast friends in the way only traveling and forced socialization can allow. We stayed up into the evening talking about nursing, photography, the American state called Canada, and coincidence.
But most strangely of all, one of the people in the group not only grew up in the same city as me, Vancouver, Washington, but graduated from the same high school and is now a biology major.
I’ve tried to compute the odds but my estimation capabilities are faulty.
I failed to get a picture which will be my new policy. It’s always the people I remember.