Reflections of My Travel

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This morning, we woke to rain. Lots of rain. Not long after waking up, we had already crossed the border into Switzerland. We then headed south and in no more than 20 minutes, we drove from the north border to the south border of Liechtenstein (such a tiny, tiny country) and crossed back into Switzerland again. We headed north and drove along the shore of Lake Constance, which sits on the border of Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. It was a very pretty lake but I was surprised by the lack of lake-attraction sort of stuff. Of course, that didn’t stop me from finding a nice place to pull over and harass the pretty ducks. We followed the lake all the way up to the Germany border and then made our way into the Schwartzwald region. We went to Triberg because they boasted Germany’s highest waterfall. However, when we arrived in the town, we were disturbed to find that it was extremely touristy and packed with people. When we got out to start the hike up toward the fall, we discovered that it wasn’t really a waterfall so much as a series of cascades. Since the trail was so overburdened with people and we were upset to have been lured into a seemingly misrepresented tourist trap, we left Triberg in a hurry. From there, we drove west, crossed over the Rhine in to France, and drove south along the Rhine. Following the river took us back into Switzerland, once again, but we were back in Germany again in no time. We headed north into the Black Forest again and stopped in some town (wasn’t on the map so I couldn’t guess at a name) for a hotel.