About Alex

Hallo! I’m Alex. I’m a freelance writer and consultant with a background in nonprofit and community development work. My husband and I moved to Zurich from San Francisco in 2018, and what was meant to be a two-year stint quickly turned into something much longer. The city - and the access it gave us to the outdoors - simply fit us like a glove. Settling in as true Swiss residents is a work in progress, but we are figuring it out, one day at a time.

And as you might be able to tell, I’m just a teeny tiny bit obsessed with hiking and the mountains.

 

About Wander We Go

Here in Switzerland, there are more than 65,000 kilometers of marked trails, called “wanderwegs.” The signs are bright yellow, and they are everywhere, leading through urban city centers to lakeside villages to the very tops of the Alps.

I started this blog for a bunch of reasons: as a way to keep family and friends updated on our lives, as a creative outlet to keep me writing, as a way to document the adventures and misadventures of life “abroad.” Perhaps surprisingly, I did not intend for this blog to become a hiking resource, even though that is what it has become! That’s why, peppered among the many posts about hiking and mountain huts and favorite trails, you’ll still see personal narratives about my life.

Because at the end of the day, Wander We Go is the story about creating my own wanderweg.

New? Here are a few favorite posts of mine to get you started:

I’m happy you are here. I’m happy you are reading. And I hope you come back.