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| view from my room before breakfast and my ride across Gotthard Pass back to Zug |
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| Lots of granite quarry on the way towards Gotthard |
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| This is one of the six boring heads that carved the hard rock sections (~80%) of the Gotthard tunnels 2002--2007 (so-so youtube documentary about the Gotthard Tunnels project) |
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| The motors to turn this thing where 3.5MW. Apparently her name is Heidi |
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| I learn later today at the Swiss Museum of Transport that this is called a rotary chisel |
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| Panorama San Gotthard, a good spot to stop for a photo |
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| notice the old road is all cobblestones |
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| Old pass road is closing for a classic car race. But a sympathetic policeman let me drive down for 10 minutes then turn around. At my turn-around point, a less sympathetic policeman almost made be go all the way back down. But it was nice to ignore him and continue riding back up the old road. |
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| A bitchin' road |
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| This is heading down the north side of Gotthard pass towards Lucerne |
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| sitting down for lunch at Auslandschweizerplatz on Vierwaldstattersee AKA Lake Lucern |
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| The ferry is interrupting my lunch time view |
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| Switzerland has its share of toothie mountains |
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| and I think I see a glacier in there under the clouds |
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| In Switzerland, you follow the rules and pay for your parking |
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| that will buff out |
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| Now I know why I was so hot inside the Gotthard tunnel when I drove through it back in 2016. The rock itself is as warm as 46°C |
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| a common structural element in Europe is the steel mesh box full of rocks. On Krk island in Croatia, I saw a whole house made this way. Sorry I didn't get a picture of that. |
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| Check out this innovative use of a Vespa scooter for lake transport |