The closer we are getting to the end of our trip, the more I get back into working mode. Actually, I haven’t been really out of it, but the fact

Excitement is in the air when we approach the Canadian border. After all, we have been moving around the US until now, and to us Europeans, who usually enter the

Maggie, our hostess, is an old friend of my parents and welcomes us waiving from the terrace of her lovely summer house, a few miles north of Greensboro, a quiet

We would have never thought we would experience so much while driving up from Cape Cod to Vermont. Our idea was to just have a day for the four of

After weeks of cruising through the United States and a long journey from Traverse City through Detroit and Boston by airplane, we arrived on Cape Cod late at night on

We have meanwhile continued our journey to Cape Cod in Massachusetts where we will be for a week celebrating yet another special reunion with my friend Ben from my time

Chicago is not windy at all this time of year. We get there late at night, having entered yet another time zone, and it is still warm and humid when

We liked it in San Francisco. Very much. Even though we barely had 48 hours there, we felt we did the most of it. After our first day where we

Before reaching San Francisco, we contact Alex. He and I shared an appartment together in Paris in 2004 for a couple of months. I was of the firm belief that

Our time with Minnie Winnie is slowly coming to an end. Few days ahead of us, we have one major destination, Arches National Park, before doing a lot of driving

Our third week in and with Minnie Winnie is all about Colorado really. On our way there, we stop in Laramie, Wyoming, for lunch, known to be a city where

We are in the middle of “Week Three in a Camper Van” and enjoying some very special times with friends in Colorado when a message reached me yesterday which takes

And so we continue our journey east into the Wild West. We are ultimately headed to Colorado, where we plan to meet Juliane’s friend Heather and her family near Fort

As our journey takes us from place to place, we are constantly traveling through American history. Be it in Manhattan which stands for so many chapters of older and recent

On the morning of July 3, we reunite with Juliane’s host parents in Homedale Idaho, at their house, for breakfast. We walk over there from our campground with a feeling

One thing that I have noticed all along our journey and which makes our trip special in so many ways is that we are traveling at the pace of our

So we pack up our things in La Push and embark on our second week with Minnie Winnie, continuing our journey down the Olympic Peninsula, on scenic Highway 101, along

As my wife and I sit on the beach at Neah Bay in the Makah Reservation, unstructured thoughts about Native Americans cross our minds. What happened back then? How did

The whale watching tour with Captain Rob and his crew, a charming young lady called Claire, on the occasion of our stay in Port Townsend was a very special experience.

Our first week with Minnie Winnie for one part is all about getting to know her and her monstrous dimensions, and for the other the so called Olympic Peninsula, the