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An October Weekend in Zermatt

I recognize that I'm over the top about this. Maybe it's hard to understand if you haven't seen them in person. But I've had people tell me: What's the big deal? It's just a bunch of yellow trees. And well, you know how people say they wouldn't trust someone who doesn't like dogs? I don't trust people who don't get excited when they see a golden larch. Like, what - you can't appreciate something beautiful? You can look at a tree that is neon yellow, a color so impossibly vivid it shouldn't occur in nature but it somehow does - and not be moved? What about an entire forest of these electric trees? You can see that and not be overwhelmed? No. You simply have to feel something.

One Day on the World's Slowest Fast Train: The Glacier Express

A ride on the Glacier Express is anything but fast. The 290-kilometer trip through the Swiss Alps, from Zermatt to St. Moritz, takes over 8 hours, with 291 bridge crossings, 91 tunnels, 2000+ meters of elevation gain. It’s essentially the length of a transatlantic flight (but without any turbulence!), all within little landlocked Switzerland. We rode the #glacierexpress around this time last January, and I wrote about the whole experience: each major leg of the journey, what to expect, and probably more train facts then you needed to know