Lost bags and Blizzards

Arrived in Zurich around 8 am May 2. Two boxes of gear didn’t arrived at the baggage carousel - of course. Our box included all the panniers, Kaya’s clothes, the girls clothes, bike tools/parts, stove, etc. Steph and John were missing their tent and clothes. Without our panniers, we could’t build our bikes, so we loaded the bike boxes onto two trains to Tuttlingen. It was a bit awkward carrying 5 bike    boxes around, but we managed. We only blocked off one coffee cart and had a weird interaction with the coffee cart guy. Got to the hotel ok and built the bikes on May 3 in the heated garage of the hotel while listening to AC:DC on John’s phone - nice. May 4 we took the train to Geisingen with the bikes - meant to get off at Donaueschingen, but got off too early. Rode 16 km into Donaueschingen to check out the source of the river - a small groundwater spring. Had a beer after seeing the spring - started snowing hard - biked 3 hours in a full on blizzard back to Tuttlingen; was cold and underdressed. Patti was super tough and barely complained ~ 52 km biking day.