Yeah, I know that we did not send out a blog yesterday. Frankly, we were just too lazy and we couldn’t ask Lady or the Tramp to do so because they had already had a rough day. We awoke in Grimentz to some blue sky, which gave us hope for a sunny day. By 11:00, the clouds had lifted and the roads had dried, so we loaded up the bikes and headed DOWN to Sierre. The pain of saying good-bye to Maria and Manfred was eased by knowing that we will see them again in a couple of weeks. We had about 7 kms. of very steep descent, followed by 5 kms. of very steep ascent, then 10 kms of EXTREMELY steep descent. We stopped every half kilometer or so to allow the wheel rims to
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