We planned this trip after randomly finding a good deal on flights to Zurich, and impulsively purchasing them -- last summer. The Lauterbrunnen Valley in Switzerland and the Alsace region in France were quickly penciled in as our main destinations, but I lobbied hard to include a stop in Liechtenstein. Erwin was skeptical at first. Several otherwise reputable travel bloggers have written that there is little to do there, and he wasn't interested in visiting just to check another country off a list. Well...that wasn't what I wanted either! I wanted to hike the Furtin-Gina-Weg. So I sent him some links, which he skimmed over. He was intrigued enough to do some further research of his own, which involved watching some youtube videos, and then he was fully on board. I then moved on to phase 2 in my (obviously successful) campaign: an overnight stay at a mountain hut. By September 2018, I had booked us a family room at the Berggasthaus Sareis for the very first night of our trip.
