People do things, all the time, all over the world. Some reasonable, others funny, quite a few weird. One of my colleagues spends most of his time either programming, thinking about geeky hobbies like water rockets or combustion engines, or hiking, be it in the vicinity of Munich or Island, no matter. And he invests quite a bit of time in figuring out new ways to go, like from Munich to Venice while passing by as many interesting places as possible. And he performs really well in motivating people, like me. Therefor here we are, five people hiking on our way to Venice, slowly but steadily ...