What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?

As a follow up to yesterday’s blog post the last thing that I searched for was the travel times between Nyon and Le Pont, the train time between Le Pont and Vallorbe and the driving time between Le Pont and Moléson-Sur-Gruyère and the time for a little détour to pick someone up near Vevey.

If I was to have a full day tomorrow I would set off at 08:50 or so and drive for one hour to be at the Le Pont Train station by 09:58 and in Vallorbe by 10:18. I would then walk with a group to the caves of Vallorbe and wait outside as they explore the cave, before then hiking to the Dent De Vaulion before heading down to Le Pont, where depending on time, I would set off for Moléson. That would be a 1hr20 drive. In theory at 22:00 or later I would drive home after a 15km hike, and hours spent in the sun, and climbing a VF.

If the hike was directly connected to the VF then I would do it with pleasure. The hike requires me to drive an hour to get to. I would then drive one and a half hours from the hike to the VF, and then another hour and a half to get home. That’s at least four hours of driving, five hours of hiking and an hour or two of via ferrata.

That’s why the last thing I searched for online was travel times via Google maps. If the activities were close together then I would happilly do both. If both activities were close to each other I would also do both in a single day. It’s because it’s one hour of driving for one leg, another hour and a half of driving for the second leg, and then another hour and a half of driving for the last leg that I will almost certainly not do the hike, before the VF.

When I drop off the person in Vevey, I will then have 47 minutes of driving at night, and I want to be alert and safe on the road during that drive. If I was with a passenger then we would keep each other awake with conversation.