Where to…Switzerland!

I think it’s high time I finally share our two weeks road-tripping around Switzerland in October of 2022!

Every year, we try to travel somewhere for our anniversary - which is in October. Our method for deciding is based on a jar of destinations that we have written down and pull from at New Years. Only we didn’t actually pull from the jar on January 1, 2022. So let’s rewind a bit, shall we?

January 1, 2020. It’s just after midnight and I bring the jar of destinations over to the couch where Austin was already dozing off to sleep. I reminded him of our new tradition (having started it the year before), and knowing that I couldn’t possibly wait another second, he eagerly sat up and we each pulled a slip of paper from the jar. The rule is that both of us pull and we try to go to both places that year.

We open our little slips of paper and both call out at the same time: PARIS!

Fate, right?

And then covid happened and we had to cancel that plan. We still haven’t rescheduled the destination, having put the pieces of paper back in the jar to pull again another time. We instead went on an unforgettable roadtrip that October, the Southwest Road Trip that I just finished sharing with you all.

What with covid, we chose not the pull at New Years 2021, because we were still uncertain at the time of what travel internationally would be looking like. Fast forward to Thanksgiving 2021 and I’m dying to pull from the jar without waiting a little over a month to do so. I declare a slight change to the rule, only because we hadn’t pulled this past year: that we pull now at Thanksgiving, and then one more time at New Year’s to be more like normal.

We pull. Just one of us. The other will pull on New Years Day.

Switzerland.

Where to (for Day One), Meg?