
When I was in college in the 1980’s and studying “abroad” in Vienna for a semester, I took a weekend trip to Switzerland. The landscape was phenomenal. Lush green valleys with clusters of yellow daffodils blooming everywhere. Snow topped mountains released dozens of waterfalls that cascaded into the valleys below. I spent the first two days snapping pictures left and right. On my final day, I took the train to Zermatt to see the might Matterhorn. It was one of the places I had always wanted to visit and it proved to be stunning. However, in one of my biggest photographic fails, I had left my camera behind in the hostel back in Interlaken. I was devastated and although Zermatt was incredible, I had no images from the trip (remember, cell phones were not a thing back then). I knew that someday, I would have to make my way back and try again.
Continue reading