Mordor?

"The one place in Middle-earth we don't want to see any closer," said Sam to Frodo in The Lord of the Rings when they saw the looming mountainous wall of Mordor in the distance, "and the one place we're trying to get to."

I spent a pleasant morning rounding the southern edge of Lake Geneva, stopping briefly in Évians-les-Bains where the spring water comes from. And now this is the road ahead.

One more brief stop before the Alps. It's daunting, this close up. Let's see what today brings.

People sometimes comment on the What3Words links at the bottom of these posts - they are just random words to locate a spot on the earth, but sometimes they seem quite apt. Here's today's:

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