Month: September 2022
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Over the Gorge
Doing the Via Ferrata at Ausable Chasm in upstate New York. A little rainy, but still a pretty good two hours of structured climbing along the cliffs and over the gorge. Nice to know I still have my nerve and a few moves.
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Berlin
Took the train from Geneva to Berlin. I did somewhat the reverse 30+ years ago going from Munich to Geneva back when the trains were slower and there were dining cars with table clothes and silverware. The wide seats facing each other would fold down to make a bed and the seats could be walled…
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Annecy, France
I was supposed to visit this small French town during a GVN virology conference, but I left the foundation before the meeting and so missed the visit. Today, I finally made it to Annecy. Well worth the wait. The town was once a part of Geneva, but given a thousand years of Europe’s history in…
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CERN
Interesting tour of CERN. You can go into the Atlas detector building, but there’s no going down to the Hadron collider itself. It’s running now (April thru November) and there’s too much radiation. Guess that’s why it’s buried 100 meters down. The collider is 27 kilometers in diameter and there’s a proposal on the table…