AU REVOIR YVERDON, WILKOMMEN BASEL

The team is on the road as we speak, leaving the French-speaking town of Yverdon-les-Bains and heading east to the German-speaking city of Basel. It's been a productive five days of training, and the group will surely miss the thermal pools and Jacuzzis attached to our temporary home at the Grand Hotel Des Bains. Training was fairly intense this morning with two different exercises of 9 v. 9, followed by crossing and finishing. You'll get a glimpse of some of the effort in tomorrow's all_access feature on Clint Dempsey. Meantime, the headphones are out and the DVD players are fired up as the bus cruises on and the sun sets on Monday in Switzerland.