Hey Folks,

due to the fact, that some of my co-workers might be interested in trip updates, I am going to switch this website to English content for the next couple weeks.

Thanks to Jens, who encouraged us to join him for a coffee at 9.30pm at the Spider-House in Austin, where I had a “Black&White” (Espresso with Vanilla Ice-cream), we didn’t really sleep during the last night at Austin. Fortunately Pat offered me to give me a ride to the Airport, unfortunately he was lucky with the A-Town morning traffic and showed up just in time. I was hoping so hard to get a little bit more sleep.

We picked up the Chevy Impala and started on Highway 290 to Fredericksburg. The car is actually not to bad and we achieved 29mpg. But even when I put in “2″ and floored it, it barely accelerated. The 211HP must be hidden in the blower motor or somewhere. But it drives very smoothly. I must have looked like a zombie risen from the undead with my red eyes (where the hell is my visine?), but those little bitchy bakery girls did not want to offer “German’s rebate”…IN FREDERICKSBURG!!!! Maybe they thought we were vampires from Romania.

The following 7 hours reminded me a little bit on the pictures from this little Mars rover (was it Pathfinder?), but for me it was pretty impressive. When we arrived El Paso we decided not to drive all the way to San Diego in one day with switching driver every 4 hours and make a stop at Las Cruces instead. The room is clean and the AC works fine. (I think I could see my breath when I entered the room…)