Back row: Mark Foehr, Garth Engler, Marion Coote, Erik Foehr, Paul Dachauer, Gretchen Sweigert, William Taylor; Middle row: Jennie Kluse, Allison Banks, John Mahl;Front row: Ethan Ford, Jenn Nelson, Alyssa Phipps, Jessica Williams, Kirsten Richardson, Nina Clark, Mike Ramos - below the Matterhorn
1987 - Trip Highlights
- rain, rain go away - some nine days given to wet conditions
- running through Swiss field and all time photo
- good track marks at meet in Vevey by Lake Geneva
- the skies finally cleared the last day in Zermatt and we had a wonderful picnic under the Matterhorn and a warm sun
- peanut butter, jam, rolls, nuts, big, thick creamy yogurt
- woman smiles on way to work as we listen to Verdi in front of famous opera house in Milan
- Venice and another opera house
- Florence and café tables for beds
- a banana for breakfast before David
- Lake Bled, a run, a swim, dancing, then a long the search for van keys in the morning
- Ethan had them in his pocket (even now I can see him grinning); so much for doctorates and MIT
- Vienna youth hotel wasn’t available yet so we were farmed out to some rooms well away from the Ring
- hit wrong day and Freud museum was closed
- behind the Iron Curtain to Prague
- broken glass
- military police
- Alyssa teases officers and we are set free
- tough competition in their prime track stadium
- "get set?" how many times Gretchen and Allison?
- great track meet in Budapest
- Paul and Marian race to top marks; four of the boys run very good times over 1500 meters
- exchange with athletes, Paul makes a friend, we acquire a friends who go with us to certain sites
- Marian plays violin with gypsies in outdoor restaurant
- statue of Lenin by heroes square
- quit teasing Nina in the elevator, Allison
- we almost left Budapest without John and Gareth
- fear of train separation on way to Belgrade, moving from compartments in middle of the night, “up and down the …..”
- wonderful greeting in Belgrade at the train station and then lunch with their coaches and team
- friendly meet in a large, empty stadium; cold showers
- wonderful party in outdoor restaurant with coaches and athletes
- late train departure for Greece, yet many of their coaches and athletes were still there at the station after midnight
- good night on the train, but only one van available in Thessaloniki; some needed to ride in a crowded car through Greece
- down the mountain with Jenny and Kirsten in the Mt. Olympus express
- procession of maidens to altar by Parthenon
- sky diving off cliff in Nauplion
- orchard theft
- marvelous Santorini
- hello Ethan, what are you riding?
- and what is that on your T shirt?
- closing talks on before Parthenon
- four hours on run-way in Chicago on way home due to electric storm