Enjoying a beautiful sunset at Santa Monica Pier.

Taking a walk in downtown 🌴 Palm Springs 🌴.

Herbie at Salvation Mountain 💒 near Niland, California, by Leonard Knight who we met in 2010 during our trip around the world.

Our Love Bug at Salton Sea – the largest lake in California

The probably most scenic stretch of Route 66 between Kingman and Oatman, Arizona.

Always great to be back in fabulous 🎰 Las Vegas 🎲 hanging out with our friend Wayne.

Passing stunning sand dunes and cotton fields while road tripping across Southern California.

Just love being back on the road with Herbie and the most beautiful co-pilot enjoying these breathtaking Southwestern sunsets. 🌅

Went on a trip to date farms in order to buy some freshly harvested dates.

We picked up Herbie after being away from him for a year, serviced his carburetor and hit the road heading South to ️🌴 Palm Springs 🌴 where we are enjoying a little pit stop.

Touchdown! We made it!
After making a detour to Mexico, we finally returned back to the United States of America.

We are so happy to be back after our last journey to the US was cancelled in April due to Trump’s travel ban and flight cancellations.

Herbie’s World Tour can now be continued…

After ten years of residing in America, Herbie No. I eventually got a “home”. In 2010 we shipped Herbie from Australia to the United States in order to travel the entire Americas. Since that time our Love Bug was exposed to the outdoors until we just bought a 40 ft container as a garage for Herbie and the camper. Special thanks go to our dear friend Randy, who managed this deal for us and who became Herbie’s host years ago!

Unfortunately we couldn’t visit the US this year so far, but we hope to be able in autumn. We look forward to opening the container and seeing Herbie again. Stay tuned!

Since travels to the US have been banned and our flight canceled, we won’t be able to continue Herbie’s World Tour, as we planned, in April. But we hope to be back on the road in autumn this year. We’ll keep you posted!

Just discovered an article by “The Original Route 66 Gift Shop Newsletter” from September 2016, while we were touring the “Mother Road” back then. In less than a month we’ll be back there and we’re defenitely looking forward to “getting our kicks on Route 66” again!

This is the year 2020 and there is more to come. Herbie’s World Tour continues…

Just received a sample of another book 📖 featuring Herbie’s World Tour…

Thank you for sharing our story!

In today’s paper 📰 “Heute” …

Goodbye Herbie! 😢
We hope to see you soon again 🙏 …

As for now, we’re heading to Los Angeles to catch our flight back home and rented a Jeep to get there.

After touring more than 3,300 miles (5,300 km) in Herbie across the US Southwest the past three weeks, we just arrived in his hometown of Ridgecrest, California, again.

Our final leg ended traditionally by traveling from Pahrump, Nevada, through Death Valley.

Traveling back into Nevada by crossing Route 66 at Barstow and touring across Death Valley Wilderness. What a scenic drive again…

Herbie became a US resident almost a decade ago. Therefore I have to inspect him technically myself, since the Austrian AAA is no longer “responsible” for that…

Today I was doing some maintenance work on Herbie again, just as changing the spark plugs etc. And we are proud to say that our beloved companion never ever let us down on our trip around the globe! He’s our champion!

Ten years ago Herbie traveled with us through Saudi Arabia on our World Tour. This time we visited Mecca in California and we were enjoying all these beautiful date palm trees.

On our tour around Salton Sea we also visited the Salvation Mountain near Niland again.

In 2011, when we were there for the first time, we met the 80-year-old artist Leonard Knight, who created this wonderful site. Just a couple of years later he passed away. Leonard Knight and his mountain even appeared in the Hollywood movie “Into The Wild” by Sean Penn.

Taking Herbie for a ride to the apocalyptic 💀 town of Bombay Beach 🌊 at the Salton Sea.

Regards from 🌴 Palm Springs 🌴, where we’re staying to relax for a couple of days…