Woke up to rain. The Swiss rail system looked real good at breakfast but after hemming and hawing for an hour we decided to ride. We were fortunate that we had to wait out only one storm for a half hour early on. That gave us the chance to explore Switzerland's largest castle. We did a fair amount of climbing too. Since many of today's paths of 60 kilometers were on hard pack gravel, we were all pretty filthy by the time we arrived at the spa town of Baden. Nice hotel. Old building, neogermanic efficiency inside. I also think someone is folding up the bathrooms each day and moving it with our bags to the next hotel. Right now ours looks like someone set dynamite to our luggage.
One of our guides Mike is returning to his home base in Chamonix to guide some ice climbers. He's been terrific and adopted the 5 Californians and 2 Italians. People over here have a nice life, not to mention the food. No motivation to use the spa though. I like my bed so I'll lay here watching Law and Order's Lenny Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) arrest bad New Yorkers in German.