SnailTrails

This is our first post from “South of the border”, as the Americans like to put it. Despite all the reading about Mexico and all the discussions with fellow travelers and Mexican expatriates alike, there’s nothing quite like the actual thing: Tijuana immediately sucks you into a very different world, caracterised by chaos, unfamiliar sounds, smells and sights. General disorientation ensues, bienvenidos a Mexico!! After the initial shock, the Baja manages to soothe you quite quickly with its fine but…

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Archie ‘on the rocks’ Dark clouds signalize the approach of a thunderstorm in ‘Yellowstone’ which makes it easier for us to leave this magnificent park. Taking the north entrance automatically leads us into Montana and the names says it all: mountain ranges as far as we can see indicate that we have arrived in the ‘Rocky Mountains’. The lively town ‘Bozeman’ is almost an oasis amidst the impressive but sparsely populated scenery and we take advantage of it by eating…

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We are leaving wonderful Chicago and continue our way westwards. The 6-lane highway is getting narrower by the hour and even before we reach Iowa we are the only car on the road, surrounded by corn- and soybean fields. On narrow country roads, which are much more interesting than boring interstate highways, we proceed very slowly – but that is exactly the idea, isn’t it!? We cross the Mississippi river in a slightly deserted town by the name of Dubuque…

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There are a couple of posts missing in my archives, will insert them before this one as soon as I find them. Slowly but surely we move closer to New York City, and although the highway consists now of 6 lanes in every direction we get stuck in a traffic jam in the pouring rain. Everyone wants to drive into The City tonight which leads to a total traffic chaos. We thus decide to circumvent Manhattan on our way to…

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