Eibsee, Germany

The Eibsee Loop Trail is only 4.3 miles (6.9 kilometers) long. There’s barely any elevation gains.

But it took me nearly 3 hours to walk it.

Zugspitze – Top of Germany

I saw them again, on the bus to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the jagged white peaks of the Alps.

“I like this region!” – stepping onto a train at Munich’s Hauptbanhof, along with others carrying hiking poles and backpacks, I said to myself.

The train was headed to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a ski town near Zugspitze, the highest peak of Germany.