Who? What? Where? When? WHY???
7月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
Russell and I are heading off on a Competitours.com adventure. We did this 10 years ago, and had an absolute blast, so we are looking forward to this immensely.
This is a 10 day trip around Europe.もっと詳しく
Leaving SFO
7月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
In an effort to speed up my adjustment to jet lag, I woke up at 4 am for our 5:30 PM flight to Dublin, Ireland. My goal was to be so sleepy by the time we boarded that I would just sleep the entireもっと詳しく
Dublin: Historic home and street scenes
7月26日, アイルランド ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
The flight was somewhat empty so Russell and I ended up in 4 seats between the two of us. Which made it possible for me to relax and stretch out and actually get some sleep. Russell however spentもっと詳しく
Nametag challenge
7月26日, アイルランド ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
We had one last task before we start the Competitours part of the trip and that was to come up with name tags that identified us as individuals and our team. It didn’t take long before we came upもっと詳しく
Dublin last day
7月27日, アイルランド ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
We are both still fighting jet lag so we didn’t wake up until 10:30. It was noon by the time we checked out, far too late to get a traditional “full Irish breakfast.” So Alex, Adrian, and Iもっと詳しく
Day 1: Kilkenny (Kilkenny Castle)
7月28日, アイルランド ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
After another very bad night’s sleep, we woke late and barely had time to get coffee and stumble down to the hotel lobby for the official start of Competitours Europe 2026.
Ari (our fearlessもっと詳しく
Day 1: Kilkenny (Hurling)
7月28日, アイルランド ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
After lunch, Tommy led us on a short and leisurely (neither) stroll (hike) to a hurling field (pitch?). There we were introduced to the Irish sport of hurling. This is similar to lacrosse or fieldもっと詳しく
Day 1: Kilkenny (Pulling pints)
7月28日, アイルランド ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
After hurling, we had a more leisurely paced walk back to the pub where we had a new challenge!
This one was testing us on whether we could pull a perfect (or at least pretty good) pint of 3もっと詳しく
Day 2: Kilkenny (Irish dancing)
7月29日, アイルランド ⋅ ☁️ 63 °F
The next morning we had to get up and packed and checked out and breakfasted and luggage dropped off and down to reception by 10 am. Which wouldn't have been so hard except once again it was 3 amもっと詳しく
Day 2: Kilkenny (Irish drumming)
7月29日, アイルランド ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
Our final Irish challenge was an introduction to the bodhran (rhymes with SOW-lawn), which is a handheld Irish drum. Since it is a relatively small instrument, we could each hold one in ourもっと詳しく
Day 2: Kilkenny to Switzerland
7月29日, スイス ⋅ 🌙 79 °F
We had to rush the end of the drumming not so much because we were in danger of missing our plane, but rather because the bus driver had someplace to be after dropping us off. This meant we have noもっと詳しく
Day 3: Lac Léman (Swiss chocolate making)
7月30日, スイス ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
The next morning I was really dragging due to an entire week of sleep deprivation.
However some of that tiredness evaporated when I walked into the breakfast room and saw the stunning view of Lacもっと詳しく
Day 3: Lac Léman (Fondue dinner)
7月30日, スイス ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
After the chocolate adventure, they drove us to the village of Gruyeres, which is obviously famous for their cheese.
We wandered around the little village and ended up at a nice little restaurantもっと詳しく
Day 4: Lac Léman (Sheep herding)
7月31日, スイス ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
The next morning we had to be packed and checked out and on the bus by 8 am (again!). We were warned that we might get dirty but none of us guessed what our activity would be: sheep herding!
We metもっと詳しく
Day 4: Switzerland to France
7月31日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 88 °F
After our morning of sheepherding we got on the bus and headed to the nearby town of Ouchy. Alex, Russell, & I joined a father-daughter team for lunch at a restaurant that served mussels. Russellもっと詳しく
Day 5: Annecy (Orienteering)
8月1日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
The next morning I woke up with a sore throat and so groggy from sleep deprivation. And the whiskey. Let's not forget the whiskey.
We rode a bus out to a forest on a mountaintop and discoveredもっと詳しく
Day 5: Annecy (Lunch & Raft Building)
8月1日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F
Our next stop was a restaurant right by the beach. Ari treated us all to lunch and we had a lovely time resting up for the afternoon challenge.
After lunch it was time to get dressed for the nextもっと詳しく
Day 5: Annecy (Visiting The French Laundry)
8月1日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F
I was exhausted so as soon as we got back to the room I assembled the dirty laundry, passed off to Russell and headed to bed.
He took it off to the nearby laundromat. Soon he was joined byもっと詳しく
Day 6: Annecy (Via Ferrata)
8月2日, フランス ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
I woke up feeling better. We didn't have to meet the bus until 10 am. Then it was about a one hour ride out to another mountain. Today is the Via Ferrata day!
The Via Ferrata is a way toもっと詳しく
Day 6: France to Italy
8月2日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
After we all met up back at the bus, we had a long drive into Italy. We stopped at a rest area to get sandwiches to go.
The Via Ferrata wore everyone out and even Steve and Ari zonked out on theもっと詳しく
Day 6: Tremezzo (dinner)
8月2日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
Dinner was a short walk away to a table on a terrace overlooking Lake Como.
An anonymous donor (OK, it was us) wanted to pay for a really nice dinner for the whole group. The setting wasもっと詳しく
Day 7: Via Ferrata marketing videos
8月3日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
We didn't win any points for actually doing the Via Ferrata because they don't want to encourage us to even edge up to something unsafe for the sake of points in this competition. So our only pointsもっと詳しく
Day 7: Bellagio (Art)
8月3日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
The next morning we once again had a relaxed start time (10 am!) and we weren't checking out of the hotel, so we got a decent night's sleep, except I kept waking up in pain every time I swallowed.もっと詳しく
Day 7: Swimming in Lake Como
8月3日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 88 °F
It was a hot and sticky day so when Ari suggested heading to a nearby public beach, he had quite a few people wanting to join him.
Ironically, Ari got distracted by playing beach volleyball andもっと詳しく
Day 8: Tremezzo to Sarnico
8月4日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 91 °F
We had to get up and check out again this morning, but wasn't an early departure. We checked out and got on the bus around 10 am and then drove to our next (and final) city: Sarnico.
We wereもっと詳しく







































































































































have a great time!! [Kathy]
Have fun! I’ll be following your posts. [Ronni]
Love the video! It is silly and adorable. You guys have an amazing trip. Don't spend so much time with your mascot that you forget to go to your next destination!! [Alan & Shirley]