flylikethewind

June 27/28/29, 2017 The ending is always the most difficult, especially when the journey has been perfect. On June 27, we still have a day in Seattle. We spend the morning...

July 25th and 26th That is actually the case, but for a different reason than Tom Hanks. The mosquitoes almost eat us alive on the first night and the rest itch terribly all day...

June 23rd and 24th, 2017 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark crossed the continent from east to west on behalf of President Thomas Jefferson in 1804 and 1805, reaching the...

June 22, 2017 Here in the USA, you can adopt a piece of highway. We would take the stretch of Highway 101 between Florence and Waldport in the state of Oregon. The coastal route...

On both days, we will be exploring a relatively short stretch between Eureka and Crescent City in the forest. Here on the northwest coast, you will find 95% of all the remaining...

June 19, 2017 Mendocino, Mendocino, I drive to Mendocino every day. Apart from the fact that there is no San Fernando in sight, the area north of San Francisco looks quite...

June 18, 2017 The Cable Car is a national monument and a means of transportation at the same time. Usually, something like that doesn't go together. In the morning at 9:30,...

June 17, 2017 Gudrun has organized police protection for herself in San Francisco. Captain Stottlemeyer and Adrian Monk are not present because they have the day off. We are at...

June 16, 2017 Aunt Hanne has been living in the USA since 1956. She moved from her hometown Miltenberg in Lower Franconia with a young American soldier to Salt Lake City. The...

June 15, 2017 We are driving on Interstate 80 from Wendover to Winnemucca. The highway follows the path that the wagons heading to California took over 150 years ago....

June 14, 2017 There are 60 years and 20,000 kilometers between the first two pictures. I'm sitting on the steps of the Capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah, just like in 1956....

June 13, 2017 After a freezing night, breakfast tastes even better with German bread from the German Bakery Forscher. Although $7.95 for a pound of bread is not cheap. We have...

June 12, 2017 We make our way to Bryce Canyon. Along the way, we come across the first town in the state of Utah. Kanab is very beautiful and looks more like Route 66 than many...

July 11, 2017 From Tuba City in the Navajo Nation, we head straight to the ultimate Western backdrop: Monument Valley on the border between Arizona and Utah. Behind every curve...

Two days in one place are rare. We laze around, do some laundry, and go shopping quickly. Well, quickly. Four miles there, four miles back. The hotel folks say with conviction,...

9th June 2017 The campground in Flagstaff is the largest on the tour and the most expensive after Washington. Of course, the Grand Canyon is nearby. Nearby is relative, it's 79...

June 8, 2017 Further west! First stop is the Red Rock State Park and what do we see: Red rocks and redskins: Navajos. We are on their land, in their nation. We cross the...

Heute gibt es ein Begrüßung-Keks. „Schokoladenchips oder Hafer-Rosinen?“ Alle Neuankömmlinge fahren zu ihren Plätzen und knabbern dabei an ihren Plätzchen.

In the middle of nowhere, it suddenly feels like Christmas, one of the many thorny shrubs apparently serves as a Christmas tree all year round.

The border area between Oklahoma and Texas, time has stood still. Many houses are abandoned and dilapidated. We discover a car graveyard from the 60s and 70s.

June 4, 2017 The Route 66 has hidden itself well. We find it in Sapulpa near Tulsa and lose it in Arcadia 60 km later. It takes you through a different America than the...

06/03/2017 Today is all about racking up the miles. The goal is the state of Oklahoma. At the beginning, we don't yet know which city we will be heading to. The decision will be...

A beautiful discovery: Little Rock, the capital of the state of Arkansas. But we don't know what to expect when we drive into downtown with our small but bulky motorhome. We...

05/31/2017 The first wild camping breakfast and then to Elvis' birthplace. On the way there an animal that we cannot assign. The Ghost of the King? Then monument sacrilege in...

30/05/2017 From Chattanooga we head towards Nashville. Southeast of it begins the Natchez Trace Parkway, which we want to follow to Tupelo, the birthplace of Elvis. But before...

America claims to have three kings in a dignified and tasteful manner: The King of Rock 'n Roll Elvis Presley, BB King, and Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King was shot here...

The state of Tennessee is very long. It took us three days, with a detour to the neighboring state of Mississippi, to cross it. Now, the front of our small car has turned...

Why are the Smoky Mountains called that? Because there are at least 20 campfires burning and smoking non-stop on every campsite. Kind of like TVs that are still on even though...

Washington DC is located as a special area in the state of Maryland, a border state between the Northern and Southern states. That's why we're suddenly in the old South, in...

We are the Tygers from Mechanicsville, Maryland. We were neighbors with Jurgen and Gudrun at Cherry Hill Campground in our nation's capital, Washington DC, on Memorial Day...