(6/15/01 - 7/1/01)
Brian Beach getting his motorcycle ready for the very first ride.
Waterfall inside a German town.
Nice bridge over a gorge in Germany.
This is a sign at the bottom of the "Hahntennjoch Pass" which is in Austria.
Picture from the Hahntennjoch pass.
Picture from the Hahntennjoch pass.
Top of the Hahntennjoch pass.
Picture from the Hahntennjoch pass.
Picture from the Hahntennjoch pass.
Picture from the Hahntennjoch pass.
On the morning of 6/20/01, this is Brandon resting on his motorcycle.
This pass is closed, but we went around the signs anyway. Motorcycles were able to sneak by (the road was closed due to fallen trees).
Leslie and Richard.
On the morning of 6/21/01, we left our hotel in Imst, Austria and went up this tram a few kilometers away before traveling on.
Further up on the tram looking down.
At the top of the tram looking out over the moutains.
Brandon on the way down the tram.
Later that day on 6/21/01, we went over this road that was technically closed as a "private road", but it looked good on the map. It was very pretty, if a bit small.
Random Europe pass.
Top of the Klausen Pass.
Picture of the winding road we just came up.
The view from my hotel room in Beatenberg (just outside of Interlaken, Switzerland). This is the morning of 6/22/01, and it's a gorgeous day. This is one of our "off days" where we stay in the same hotel for 2 nights and take a break from driving the motorcycles.
This is about noon. If you look closely (or click on this picture to see the larger version) you can see some paragliders. One of them is Rob Beach, the motorcycle tour guide, who called down to me as I was taking this picture.
I took a train up to the top of the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland, which is just outside of Interlaken. The train route is half inside solid rock mountains. Along the way are these breathing tubes, and you can rescue mountain climbers through these tubes. The train stops so you can see the tubes.
The view out one of the breathing tubes. That's vertical rock wall outside straight down for a mile.
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Here is a map on the wall once at the top of the Jungfraujoch. The next few pictures are me climbing around inside this human habitrail. It's pretty neat, half of it is carved into solid rock or solid ice.
A view out the window.
In the ice cavern portions. Very neat.
In the ice caverns are these ice sculptures. It's hard to see in the picture, but these are some eagles.
Popping out the very top of the Jungfraujoch (through the ice caves), a picture from the top.
Another.
Back through a different path through the ice caves, this is a bunch of ice penguin sculptures.
Leslie borrowed my camera for a shot of the bathroom. These are "washing stations" that first dispense water to wet your hands, then dispense soap, then rinse, then dry your hands with hot air, all in the same place.
This is a picture STRAIGHT DOWN through the grating at the top of the observation deck, which is out over space. That's a drop of about 200 yards.
The top of the observation deck.
A picture of me in the ice cave passageways at a thin (short) place.
The next day, we continued on (6/23/01) and this is at the end of a mountain road (Schwarzwald Alp it says on the building).
A neat Swiss mountain road. Notice the rock tunnel.
Another random shot.
Brian Beach in the blue suit, gorgeous mountains in the background.
The road we came up is in the valley.
