This evening I am flying away from the flat land of Ohio to a much more mountainous state: Colorado. There are many things I am looking forward to there, but what I want most is to see some amazing mountains, just like these, the Austrian Alps south of Salzburg.

I took this picture in October 2008 from the entrance to Nonntal Abbey on the back side of the Festung. There was already plenty of snow then, and I hope I get to see some snow on the Colorado Rockies.