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Steve in Golden wrote: ↑Sun Nov 04, 2018 9:26 am Nice, Ted!

I like the music in the vid. Also at about 1:25 that rather large boat that goes by sure is moving out!

Thanks!

Italians do have style and they love speed when they can do it.

KC had to move on from Como and so did I.




The road from Como to the Alps is pretty cool. As you will see once you ride Northern Italy - there is a reason to come back.

This was my intended pass on my way to Interlaken as I had to begin working my way up back to Heidelberg and home



When I got there.. the barrier was up and avalanche warnings were possible. So I had to take the side roads and tunnels instead. Still over 185 miles in 4 hours.



Hotel and View from my 65 Swiss Franc (a night room with good breakfast)





a treat! White Asparagus for dinner. There is a very short window when local white tender asparagus is grown. served with a local ham and a candy colored ale. Yum.



then took a stroll to watch the gliders come in.

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Next morning -

On my way to Basel - I stopped at a biker cafe and BMW/KTM shop for a coffee just on the outskirts of Thun.



and took a few more minutes looking at the bike which i like and makes no sense.... (note: i like those bikes so much - I guess that the Urban GS behind the Racer got stuck in my reptile brain).

rolled into Basel. I went on line and book this 1 star hotel (only fleabag of the trip) with breakfast...

I should have left but then again it was close to the river and it was only one night... Famous last words.





My afternoon in Basel.

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The next morning...I woke and ate at the questionable breakfast buffet (i paid for it...might as well eat it foolishness!). Picked up some salmonella. It may have been the soft boiled eggs as I think about it. Luckily with a little bit of warning, I had all day to get ready for the full force and effect.



Oh yeah right!.... when I walked across the busy intersection in my spacesuit motorcycle gear (which I wore over belted jeans and wicking Tee), helmet and riding boots and loaded up the bike which was street parked... i felt a small cramp develop... Humm i thought and I began to sweat. unloaded the bike quickly of things that could be stripped and ran quickly back to the hotel lobby bathroom begging for the Devine hand to keep it together.

i burst through the hotels Mens WC door and hit the tiny 2' foot by 2 1/2' bathroom stall. I did note when I passed into there was a older Romanian woman inside cleaning the basin faucets and doing a complete wipe down. I ripped off the layers now sweaty gear, pants, loosening the boots and then sat myself down with a big thump. While she cleaned and wiped the facilities outside the stalls, I cleaned the inside plumbing of my own. As you can imagine neither of us was happy I was there and we both an ugly job to endure.


On that note... my body clock was on and with that - I left Basel for Mulhouse and to the famous Schlumpf collection.

http://www.citedelautomobile.com/fr/home

Arguably the greatest car museum in the world. NOT TO BE MISSED!
History of museum...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cit%C3%A9 ... Automobile

It may be the greatest car museum in the world. Many of the cars here are one of a kind or the only remaining intact one.

Taken during a labor strike when the brothers ran owing debt to the workers and shutting down the town. The workers had no idea that this collection was right under their noses. The brothers didn't not have time to pack away the cars on the railroad and run to Switzerland. The lamp posts in the museum are real from the factory that made the same ones that run along the river in Paris. IN 1977 - the french government interceded along with the car community and the labor from the old factory... and turned this into the greatest car museum.

The owners of the collection returned once in 1992 to view his massive collection. Hard feeling still prevailed but the collection is in wonderful hands and the museum in a place to go if you are ever to visit the Alsace region.

The largest collection of Bugatti car in the world.





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Bugatti's first sports car - 1904

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