Category Archives: America

We (knowingly) met our neighbours (from back home) in Anaheim. We had planned to visit Disneyland together (they’ve got two kids in the ages of Ferdi and Bella…very fortunate for amusement parks;)). Disneyland was amazing. We tried almost every ride and enjoyed them all (especially the StarWars rides…). Sometimes we even felt like being rightContinue reading “Bye Bye”

A Shakespeare theater play was one of the things we wouldn’t have expected to see, traveling through the California valley. The kids stayed at the hotel in San Luis Obispo and somehow managed to make themselves a proper dinner using just the microwave. And in the meantime Susi and Lutz took this opportunity and wentContinue reading “Shakespeare and the Rattle Snakes”

After a long 5 hour flight (Montreal – San francisco) we really just wanted to sleep, which we did in San Bruno, a suburb of San Francisco. The next day though, we immediatly went to downtown San Francisco. We started with a stop in the Cheesecake Factory, where we surprisingly didn’t pass by Penny (bbt).Continue reading “Do not wait to evacuate“

After a long, very tiring but as interesting uber ride with a talkaktive, controversal “not- republican” Uber driver, we arrived in Manhattan, New York City, New York. There was a far-reaching queue right in front of our hotel. Wanting to know what the people are waiting in line for, we asked and fastly joined theContinue reading “Winning the lottery”

Since almost everyone we talked to (during the road trip) recommended to pay Savannah a visit, we totally had to include this beautiful place in our further route. Not only the historic buildings (built a long time ago) were exquisite, but even more charming – the spanish moss, hanging down from trees all over theContinue reading “Museum Marathon”

When we got to the beach of the lovely manatee hammock campground we saw some high buildings on the other side of the ocean. It turned out to be rockets at Cape Canaveral. Unfortunately Susi was sick so we had to leave her at the campground when we went to the Cape Canaveral Visitor Center.Continue reading “Rockets, Billy the Kid and a man o’ war attack”

We wanted to see New York but how to get there from Miami? No one we asked in the US could give us any hints about public transportation because they all drive cars all the time. We thought maybe it’s a good idea to rent an RV (Recreation Vehicle) to get from place to placeContinue reading “Home is where you park it”

Arriving in Miami we directly got first impressions of the USA – the way from the Airport to our hotel – gunshop after gunshop (I’m not even kidding), also a ton of big expensive cars (therefore, no one’s walking here). I really wasn’t joking with no one’s walking here – we asked at our hotel,Continue reading “Welcome to … the thunderstorm”

After Manuel Antonio we got into the next wonderful Costa Rican beach town called Jaco. Directly on arrival we met a canadian girl who was managing a hotel that we directly decided to stay on. Sometimes it’s to good travel without plans – the Girasol with its wonderful garden was the best hotel we stayedContinue reading “In prison”

After visiting the jungle we wanted to see the beaches of Costa Rica as well. But going down the jungle road was other than expected. Luckily we did not have to drive through rivers as some of us feared but there was something else to take care of: Fog. Driving down a nearly endless roadContinue reading “The animal observation station”

Before getting to Costa Rica the anxious part of our family constantly watched the weather forecast with a continously bad feeling. We are traveling in the rainy season. More than 80% rain probability all day sounds bad? Sitting in the hotel room all day? But no it wasn’t like that. The rain didn’t bother usContinue reading “Jungle Adventures”

If you ever get the chance to travel to Ecuador you should definitely not miss out on the Galapagos Islands – The place where the evolution theory was born. We decided to follow this advice and not miss the chance to swim with sea lions or to get spat on by an iguana. Getting thereContinue reading “Sharks and 3 bloody feet”

As already mentioned – the plan was to get to South America (specifically Amsterdam – Madrid – Quito – Galapagos). It sure would have been a very long way, the final destination being the unique Galapagos islands with all their not so ordinary animals waiting for us. We booked it a while ago – longContinue reading “Sleeping on the floor”