Dan the man

There are so many moments that come to mind, but the first one that comes to mind is when my wife and I were in Switzerland visiting her cousin, we had already been there for five or six days visiting different cities with her cousin and husband, but we scheduled a two day trip for ourselves to go to Zermatt and see the Matterhorn. We had to catch a six am train from Basel to Zermatt and easy trip that gave us plenty of time to find our hotel and check in. We had an early lunch as we still weren’t completely over our altitude sickness, we got our tickets for the train taking us up the mountain which was surprisingly steep luckily the weather was ideal, sunny and relatively warm. When we arrived at the station and stepped off the train onto the platform I was taken aback by how big the Matterhorn is, I was humbled by the immensity, looking around I could see I was not the only one feeling this. There wasn’t a lot of people there and it’s weird the way people are taking pictures of themselves more than the mountain, my wife being one of them. I have a couple of dozen pictures of the Matterhorn I am not in any of them, anyway my wife was feeling extra lousy and not enjoying herself very much. When you’re traveling around the world you hear many different languages so you don’t really pay much attention, we were sitting on the stairs outside the train station there were a couple or guys not far from us having a conversation, I noticed my wife listening and she stood up and approached them, they were from Thailand, same as my wife they had a brief conversation and one of the guys gave my wife some medicine. She told me he was a doctor on vacation and suffering the same altitude sickness we were. We go into the gift shop to use the restroom I wait on a bench in the hallway there are three women on the other bench and they are speaking Thai, I bring this to my wife’s attention she starts talking with them one of them gives my wife some medicine for her to take later on. It was one of the greatest moments of my life watching fellow countrymen come together in a totally different country.