A journey through Mexico and the Southwestern United States

ISBN: 9783751994880

Total number of pages: 384

Number of pages in colour: 51 / plenty of black and white pictures

paper back: 18,99 EUR

e-book also available 9,99 EUR

Viva los Topes!

The desire to travel had touched us again. This year I wanted to spend the winter in Mexico accompanied by my two four-legged friends. The following spring, I intended to visit extensively the National Parks of the US from Utah in the Southwest of the continent.

I am a female chauffeur and diary author with my two dogs Wuschel and Knuffi. Both ladies are used to traveling in the camper and enjoy the many hours spent together. Wuschel is nine years old, Knuffi is five years old and I am close to sixty. They do not like the flight across the pond that much, but once a year they make this sacrifice for me. What else is left for them when traveling? Wuschel acts (because of her size) as my bodyguard and Knuffi (due to her attentiveness) as a reliable alarm system. We make a good team for adventure in other continents. My own “American Wuschelmobil” (made in 1994) was already waiting for us at a friends’ parking lot in the State of New York. There were still some minor repairs and mainte-nance work to do before we could head south, along the American East Coast, to Florida and around the Gulf of Mexico.

This time I wanted to cross the Mexican border from Texas. This was just an approximate schedule for me, because I hoped to escape from the cold in Florida. We would take our time on the journey, visit our friends in North Carolina and celebrate Christmas together with a longtime friend and her family in Florida. In mid-January we should – after about five thousand kilometers – reach the Mexican border.

Of course, there would have been a lot to report over the first three months on bigger and smaller experiences, but the focus of this travel book was on Mexico and Utah. The approach of the tour is to be found in “Highways and Gravel Roads” (II volume). Therefore, I won’t include a detailed description and start our story with the new calendar year.