Travelogues California

After a cozy outdoor breakfast at our motel, we first head inland to the Mission Santa Barbara. A type of monastery of the Franciscan Order, built in the Spanish style. We take...

We have chosen a new adventure :) After seeing most of Argentina, this time it has drawn us to the USA. We flew to LA, picked up our rented camper there, and drove through 10...

City tour

On Wednesday, we pack up our tents again and continue towards Paradise, the hometown of Franz's host parents. We set off around noon and were supposed to have a performance in...

Good morning The weather is good! However, it feels 20 degrees colder than in Vegas. Last night, I got up and checked on the car parked right outside my hotel window. In that...

Where should I start 😅 My absolute highlight: Alcatraz! Very impressive to see and now a great nesting place for various birds. Have you ever seen a baby seagull? Neither did I...

As so often, quite late, we started Tuesday afternoon heading south. On the way, the route took us through the Central Valley, a barren and vast plain separated from the ocean...

Time flew by in San Francisco. In addition to sightseeing, I met a lot of new people. We had coffee together, cocktail hour, sundowner, happy hour, and then off to the next bar,...

This week we explored Los Angeles. The often dilapidated infrastructure (roads and power supply) is striking. Individual neighborhoods (such as Beverly Hills) are of course...

Sacramento, the capital of California, is located in the Sacramento Valley at the confluence of the American River and the Sacramento River. The Old Sacramento district with its...

Well, I surrender to my fate - no more adventures, just consuming as a tourist, driving around and taking photos. But at least I can take beautiful photos of the vastness, of...

I calmly set off from the Marin Headlands after a hearty breakfast and take pleasure in the beautiful landscape as I drive out - hills with trees and beautiful houses. Berkely...

QUAFF (Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity) Meeting @Karl Strauss Curt also took me to a QUAFF meeting, which is the largest, oldest and most influential homebrewer club in...

Curt, my main contact person for breweries in SD, took me to Vista (San Diego County) for a brewing event of his home brewing club 'Society of Barley Engineers'. This event...

On Tuesday, we drove to Sequoia National Park. Due to road construction, cars were only allowed through every 2 hours and we had to wait 1 hour for the next opening. But then we...

The road from Lake Isabella to Sequoia National Park led us through a beautiful valley to Bakersfield and from there to Visalia, and directly to the main entrance of Kings...

As a matter of course, when crossing the border to California, we switch to vintage cars to be able to be seen on the beach as well. Werner Simon Waldemar

Parking must be learned.

Since we woke up early due to the time difference, we took advantage of the 'early bird catches the worm' and went to Canyon Lake Drive to take a legendary photo of the...

Wie in L.A. 'ganz normal' gefeiert wird, konnten wir am letzten Sonntag bei einer Rooftop-Poolparty mitten am Hollywood Boulevard erleben...

The beautiful campus of CSU Fullerton has exceeded our expectations...

Palms, beach and sun. What more do you want to relax?

Highway No.1 and more!

On the next day, we decided to visit Sequoia National Park. After a tiring 4-hour, extremely curvy drive into "nowhere", we arrived in Sequoia National Park, over 2,000 meters...

After a whole 4 days, we finally have Wifi in the hotel again! So from now on, we can share our impressions of the last days with you. After Monterey, we continued on the...

We also enjoyed the view of the Golden Gate Bridge before driving over it ourselves.

We booked a standard room in a hotel in Santa Barbara for 3 nights online yesterday and were surprised with a free upgrade to the 'Penthouse' upon our arrival. Now we are...

The journey continues towards the hippie city San Francisco, which we will only reach tomorrow. Today we had some small items on our agenda and the weather was also good again J...

Today we had a relatively short but super relaxed night at Danielle's in Santa Barbara, which we unfortunately didn't meet in person because we arrived very late last night and...

Our journey through Europe continues :D Santa Barbara's architecture dates back to the Spanish settlers and is still an integral part of the city. Overall, Santa Barbara...