the big usa adventure
 

it took me a while to upload the frst half of the pix (sorry), but i am gonna start my travel report here and now :thumbup:

from the first time i saw the c2c webside that lucky put up i knew i just had to do it (i think it was about march 09)
so told my brother that i would need a co pilot and asked him if he would be interrested.
at first he was like: oh no, i can never affford that!
after some brute calculations on my budged and my ablity to cut out "real life" i decidet to make him the offer:
you have to save up 1000$ for pocket money, i´ll pay everything else!
he was like :D and so the decision was made to go to the US.
i saved on everything, even food for 4 months and drove my beloved mk1 from norway 1000 miles to winterstorage in germany
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4558804

2 days later we took the planes from berln-frankfurt and then frankfurt-seattle (all together 14 hours).
we arrverd safely in seattle where had planned to try to rent a vw, at the airport then the "+ߧ hit the fan: non of the rental companys had a car :eek:

none, nada, niema, nitshewo, garnichts :mad: :redface: :confused:

with no ride we took a indish guys cab and he drove us to the first of many motels on this vacation, of course he imediately sr##ed us 20$ for 5 miles driving.
hotel room was smelly but ok, like most of the motels on our trip.

we began exploring seattle:








but my bro becam soon fed up of riding the bus


after some walking around we found a avis station where we took the 1 ( ! ) :wow: available car.
the (un) mighty corolla!


we met simon (2mAn) the first time this evening and took some cold ones wtih him
somehow we have been too exited to meet someone that we totally forgot to take pix this evening
:shake:

of course we didnt want to be seen in a stock corolla so we started to decorate that thing




we met simon again in the evening and took us out drinking and partying, he took so many pix that we felt that we dont need to..
hint hint

we woke up and hit the road to montana








we drove to spokane bought a new map got a steak (i mistook horseraddish for sour cream) with free nostrels we drove on and arrived in
kalispell in the middle of the night....
next morning we managed after some hours of calling and wondering (a little crying was involved too) to make contact with stanton (handsome bastid)
after some searching we actually managed to find the place and lucky and the others :-D


of course we needet some more booze and while i was inside buying the stuff the guys on the outside got creative


custom flamejob by handsome bastid ftw :D
notice the "free" sign in the window you are gong to see that again much later
more tomorrow

Sweet ride! :D

I only know ugly bastid.
Is the handsome one related to the ugly one?

I.m gonna keep an eye on this thread...this is gonna be interesting.

Keep it up Otti !!!!

i can only imagine how awesome your vacations had to have been, can't wait for more pics!

damnit i cant see the pics because i am at work
host those pics on volkforum bitsch!

:D

hahahahah i remember that stop where those horses are......is tuki in the pic by the horses?

Im folowing this :cool:

Same here! I had the same Carolla last September when I was over in the states. They never rent VW's :(.

to bad you only got the VF shirt at the end of your trip :D

nice to have met you guys!

subscribed.

Good meeting you guys. was some fun times. wanna borrow my straw?

@marcski nice to meet you too, was too short though we gonna have more time with our chromo @ wörthersee next year, f you are n?

his thread is going to updated daly, no worrys :mrgreen:


as you can see here mr U.Bastid was busy working on kitty to get her ready for a cruise.

- oh nice a cruise i thought, too bad we cant ride in a mk1..
we went to grab some burgers and when we returned, lucky came for the rescue like only a true mk1 fan could
and pulled out some mk1 cabbys out of the staple










minutes later we hit the road


nick let off some sparks...








we were crusing along a beautiful lake and took a stop at a gas station an lucky asked if everyone was good on fuel?

was wondering that too but thought she asked about fuel for the way back the same way we came, wich was not what she meant-i found out a lttle later...
when we do "a little cruise" in germany we drive like 1 hour around the city in a convoi to see and be seen.
but not here! this is montana :wink:




as you can see we had to turn on the lights and all...


at a traffik light it seemed like lucky and handsome totally lost their mind because kitty was shaikng like crazy from extensive headbanging :shock:






we went to a bar in the middle of nowhere and took some pics and some beers (only the co drivers of course)


my bro needed to finish the pichers since noone wanted more beer and told me that he felt like a baloon from all the fast drinkng




we drove all around a lake of the size of germany (a little cruise my azz) and went back to the shop where we prepared for the
crazy karaoke sendoff party.
1. i have never traveled that far for a bar before
2. i have never seen a bar that empty on people before
3. i have never seen a evening developing in such a nice party after these circumstances
4. the party was defenatly made by the fellowship of all people

really good times but we have been too buisy drinking to take pics of it

SIMON WHERE ARE YOU!

i took somehow a pic of the gang party animals after we arrived back at the shop
-from ths point on my memorys a blurry and random
-i know that i rode home in the backseat of kitty where i laughed like crazy and had a great time




gooood niiiiighht

lolz :D

i probably will, trying to bring some east and west coast DCI members as well ;)

hah, careful Paul likes to wander with his camera while you're sleeping.

hey pauli i thought you dont wanted to share the dicusing pix of halfnaked drunken gernanz...!



next day we woke up with a major bubblehead and a short look at the watch told me that we are already running late...
only a short goodby later we hit the road again southbound back to the interstate90 and saw some nice nature and
a grand am gtr??


beautiful nature in montana















we took a good night sleep in hardin and next morning we had a pont of big irrtation:
while loadng my luggage into the trunk the keys fell out of my pocket into the trunk just in the moment when
i closed the hatch, i thought no problem went to the front to unlock the trunkld from the inside...
the moment i touched the doorhandle the car locked itself :shock:
since avis has the keyes together with a wire unopenable we had no choce but to call a towing company to open the door.
the guy showed up and opened the car in less than 5 min. bill 65$ :pissed:
we took our breakfast of champions ( 7 whopper jr for 7$) and drove on where we soon arrived at the state border


the crazy horse monument






there we begin to notice how inventive people are to get peoples money...
the entrance to mount rushmore is free but the parking costs 10$, but you can use the ticket with the vehicle you are parking there for a whole year :down:
who is going to go there more than once a year and has still the parking ticket???


we drove on through south dakota and wanted to take pics, but there was nothing to take pixs of :oops:
only corn crobs as far as the eye could see...
we drove untl we got really tired and stopped in mitchell to sleep in the typical slightly smelly motel
and took the dayly evening meal (beer) until ths point we found that the bud lite was ok when you drink it fast enough


more tomorrow

ewwww miller lite!

hahahaah

not true, my mom got a rental mk5 jetta when my little brother totaled his first car :wow:

pictures are great, can't wait for more :cool:

Fucking awesome roadtrip.

I would have drank about 2 6-packs a night to relax after all that driving. I'd love to do that road trip sometime.

we did a 18 pack /night on everage, lol no wonder that i got fat again...

hello guys!
we had a party yesterday and i missed to update, sorry!

we made our way to siux falls and grabbed some burgers as usual when i saw this pristine rabbit


after a small drive we crossed the next state border and entered minnesota


there was a lot more corn there!!!
we went on and entered wisconsin


my bro loved the school busses


that was a big pumpkin


the goal was to reach chicago






when in chicago one has to vsit the ex-sears tower
















we drove into chicago went up the tower down again and out of chicago in under 90min....
took a place to sleep snce we couldnt manage to reach steve´s (old guy) place, too bad
we slept in gary, really irritated by the friggin toll roads where we spend all together 25$.
we also saw the crazyest road sing ever, it said:
-hit a road worker 10000$ fine+ 14 years prison!

i need to get sober now....until tomorrow

hahaha.. no hitting roadworkers then... not good on the holiday budget.

90 minutes in chicago?
diiiiiiiiiiieeaaam !

bout 89 min too much for me.

agreed :lmao:

haha, we dont know anythng about chicago only the tower, lol

on with the thread

when we have been in chicago we talked to our buddy setve on the phone and he told us that he had a friend comming to his place and that they had planned to head out to ocean city 7.00am so after all this driving we didnt manage to be on time and meet up to drive convoi after all ](*,) ](*,) ](*,)
we decidet to make a fast run and try to catch up on the road.
small breakfast with eggs (for a change) later we spotted this




these rv´s are really impressive for us and to tow a car on that as well you would need a special drivers license in germany..


into ohio where a cop was waiting for people in a rush (like us) every 2 miles, i swear we havent seen so many cop cars in all the usa than we have seen in ohio



as you can see my bro decidet not to shave for the trip, and the facial hear began to grow strong and steady


we entered pensylvania








my co driver began to be upset and didnt wanted to take more pcs for the rest of the day.
we arrived in ocean city about 12.00pm and i had driven 806 miles and was tired like crazy.
but we had to meet up with the other guys so we went to paul´s (chromosexual) place where people where hard at work to get drunken..
too sad rj´s (rabfan) fotobucket is over bandwith he had some pics from the evening where we somehow managed to drink until 5am, even pauly passed out on us.
:razz:
pauly did you take any pics the first evening??

this was the longest distance i have ever driven on one day.

Paul pass out??? haha.

Keep the updates coming. We really enjoy them.

I wanna do this trip too.

too sad that rj´s photobucket is down he had soe nice pics from the first night.
specially the cartoon of steve puking of the balkony :-) that was funny

pauli send me this pic from the first evening




haha, look terrible!

next morning when we woke up pauli was already hard at work on his car and swapped already one carb which he thougth was faulty


we took a short walk to the beach because we needed vacations badly, into the water without hesetation...






the weather was better than the pics make it look like!
back to paulys place where my bro really enjoyed the view




we went out to meet with the other guys from the mark1 forum




party on the porch with john (behind the pillar, sorry) steve (allVWallthetime) mike (orangearrow) my bro tacky (that is how its written n german)


tom (bigcaddy) paul (cromosexual) rj (rabfan)


we where looking at all the tuned vw´s that already had gathered for sundays h2oi and had a great time!

what am i supposed to do with all the car pics i took?
i am posting the best in here and the others in the subforums?
or post all here ???

i almoast forgot to mension my man brady, what a funny fella!
it was nice to meet you too jim (aliendub,jungli81)...good times

if you have alot of carpics i could make an album for the H20 event you could fill up, to save them for prosperity..... we were planning on doing that anyways for Marc's pics but since he was too drunk to take a single carpic :lmao:

goddamn i was glad to be a part of this jens ;)

x2

ahh, I see my "fart Straw". It never left my side. haha

NEVER! at first i thought it was actually a part of your body :D

ok then , i am going to put the mark 1´s up full size and the rest as thumbnails! :idea:

funny story about the first evening i almost forgot about: when we arrived one of the first things that happened was that the dudes used up all toiletpaper,
and everyone began to worry, so i just said to the guys we are ze germanz and have always PLAN B!
the guys got all confused and looked like :shock:
i ran down to the car and grabbed a roll we stole in one of the first motels "just in case!"
when i came back up pauly explained me what you guys understand as plan B, lol i was not aware of that!

early in the morning pauli was drivng around wth a big grin on his face


hence the corolla in the backround!!








we met ivan (jus gt eyes) toby (tobywonkonobi) and jody (vwjody)






me with toby´s gf (i forgot her name, sorry!)






toby´s interior is to die for


unfortunately there was some noise coming from pauls engne and he decided to trailer her, dont want to ruin the engine.
copletely understandable.

time to get rolling to the jolly rogers mk1 gtg!!
some aircooled guys had already started to fill the lot at the jolly rodgers










my bro allways drools over chicks in lowered mark1 cabbys! (lucky, if you would speak german.....lol i better dont tell)














here you see me scrubbing louise in the new volksforum.com t-shirt bought from marc (marcski) at the dci house.

still going on about the jolly rodgers gtg wich was moved by the police, i quote: THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY EVERYONE WHO WILL NOT LEAVE THE LOT IMEDIATELY WILL BE ARRESTED! unquote

and that was when the mainstreet was already full of cars, the traffic jam was absurd because when 250-300 cars want to leave a parking lot at exactly the same time, you can emagine what happened.































everyone went up the street to the next big parking lot and we continued there as a mk-all gtg












i told you i saw the butch basket


one of my favourite cars in pictures, in live not so much





IF ANYONE COULD GET ME A WHITE CENTER CONSOLE LIKE THIS PLEASE!!!!



one of the uglyest things i´ve seen in my life but you have to give him that: the car draws attention, you would not belive how many people wher crwling under there to seee how it was done....




quite a gtg!


















this car has a special place in my heart, it is the only benz i ever liked!















more of this day tomorrow

da da damn!

god damn... makes me miss h2oi now :(

awesome!!

you are going to laugh, h20 was the next day.
the pics i posted where from a parking lot where random vw fans decidet to meet-unorganized...