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Celebrate the Best Car Ever Made!
With over 21 million manufactured in an air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive configuration, the Volkswagen Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single design platform anywhere in the world.
Herbie's Euro Trip
Herbie, Fusca & CIA
Herbie’s World Tour got featured in the latest edition of “FUSCA & CIA”, a Brazilian magazine about the air-cooled Volkswagen Bug. The story goes over eight full pages and includes a lot of pictures from our travels around the world. Read more…
Repairs and modifications
New (old) accessories for Matthias bug
An old Bug also needs equipment from this time, so Matthias found an old first-aid-kit on ebay and a breakdown triangle in Friedrichs storage. The bandages look like brand new.
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California’s VW Classic 2012
Today Herbie and Domi visited the reportedly “greatest VW show on earth”, better known as California’s “VW Classic 2012” in Irvine, near Los Angeles. Hundreds of air-cooled Volkswagen showed up and the Love Bug enjoyed being part of the show.
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Happy DLV birthday Georgy!!!
We wish our Georgy a happy birthday! Thanks for beeing such a good friend. We’re glad to have you at DLV!
Meetings
Hot Summer Nights at SCS – Vienna
On friday DLV visited the monthly repeating show “HSN” at the Shopping City South in Vienna. They saw some beautiful american cars and also a few bugs could be found. See more at: http://www.hotsummernites.at/
Meetings
Scooter meeting in Vienna
Today Georgy visited the annual “Rollertreffen im Wiener Prater”. There was also a common trip along the Wiener Ringstrasse.
Meetings
A weekend in Upper Austria
Flo, Benjamin, Chris, Matthias and Friedrich were last weekend in Upper Austria. They have experienced a lot. There was a VW-Meeting with oldtimer show in Grein, which they have visited. In addition, they put together a trailer, with cars will Read more…
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The Greatest VW Show on Earth
Herbie and Domi are going to appear at the reportedly “greatest VW show on earth”. The 30th “VW Classic” will take place at the Verizon Amphitheater in Irvine, California, on June 10. For more information about the show, just follow Read more…
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Feels Like Home
Yesterday we got back to our camp in Ridgecrest, located in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. For the last four months we were traveling across the USA, Mexico and South America along the “Pan-American Highway”. Herbie made 18,166 miles Read more…
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Get Your Kicks On Route 66
Today we were following the legendary Route 66 aka the “Mother Road” of America. We took several business loops in order to get through cities like Holbrook, Winslow and Seligman. In New Mexico we crossed the so-called Continental Divide. We Read more…
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Herbie’s Underworld Tour
After traveling the USA for more than sixteen months, we got the chance to visit almost all National Parks across the 48 lower United States. Only a few are missing. Yesterday we explored Carlsbad Caverns National Park in the Southeast Read more…
Herbie's World Tour
Texas Mountain Trail
Following the so-called Texas Mountain Trail towards New Mexico brought us through Guadalupe Mountains National Park. We had a pretty gusty cross wind while gaining height. Road signs got blown away and Domi had to steer very carefully.
Herbie's World Tour
Think Small? 150,000 Kilometers!
Herbie is still running. We’ve already driven almost 150,000 kilometers (more than 93,000 miles) around the planet. And Herbie’s World Tour has not even ended yet! Right now we’re following old American trade routes as well as the legendary Route Read more…
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Friends from Paraguay
As posted here before, Herbie got featured in the Paraguayan “ABC Color” magazine. Thanks to Jorge Ortiz from Asunción we just received a copy of the printed version. The Classic VW Club Paraguay also published a story with a lot Read more…
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Herbie’s Wild West
We just arrived in Van Horn, Texas, after crossing the second largest United State. The landscape changed dramatically while Herbie followed old American trade routes. Tomorrow we’ll head north to Roswell, Artesia and Carlsbad in New Mexico, visiting its Caverns Read more…
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Back in the USA!
We made it! After heading through the Mexican States Veracruz and Tamaulipas, we finally crossed the US border entering Texas. From here we’re continuing our road trip across the United States towards Ridgecrest in Southern California. Brownsville, Texas, is the Read more…
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News from Paraguay
Francisco Ibarra from the Classic VW Club Paraguay informed us that the magazine “ABC Color” just published the story on Herbie’s World Tour, we got interviewed about. Here’s the link to the article, of course written in Spanish (by Julio Read more…
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We got Herbie back!
Our Travel Bug arrived at the harbor of Veracruz on time. Yesterday Domi got the permission to pick him up. Everything worked out great and Herbie is doing very well. We are so happy about that! Now we’re looking forward Read more…
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Matthias, electronics and a control unit
Matthias is a trained electronics engineer, so Friedrich had the idea to copy the memory of a modified control unit (erasable programmable read only memory – EPROM) to save money, because an empty EPROM costs about 2€ and a modified Read more…
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La Casa del Vocho
As you know, we are back in Veracruz, on the Golf of Mexico. There is no other country in the world in which so many Volkswagen Beetles were produced like here. Therefore you can still find a lot of spare Read more…
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Herbie and the Globetrotters
The biggest magazine about air-cooled Volkswagen in France called “Super VW Mag” just published a story about Herbie’s World Tour and us globetrotters. The article includes an interview with us, done and written by Julien-David Collombet. For a readable version Read more…
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Mission Accomplished
Our plan was to explore the Andes of South America in our beloved Volkswagen Bug from 1963. Herbie accomplished his mission by driving 13,080 miles (21,050 kilometers) – all thanks to his very same engine with just 1,200 cc and Read more…
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Port of Lonely Hearts
Today we delivered Herbie to one of Cartagena’s ports where he’ll go aboard on his vessel “Green Lake” heading across the Caribbean and the Golf of Mexico to Veracruz. Unfortunately too many things went wrong again at the “Contecar” port Read more…
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Waiting for the Ship
As you know we are back in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, waiting for the ship, which will take Herbie back to Veracruz, Mexico. Hopefully it will depart on May 12. We initially booked a boat called “Green Lake”, which got Read more…
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Nothing Can Stop Herbie
After we crossed our last border in South America, we ran into a protest of the Colombian teacher’s union, who blocked an important highway intersection right after the border, one of just two roads connecting Colombia and Venezuela with each Read more…
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Venezuelan Herbie Fans
While having lunch in the shade of a tree on Highway No. 6, heading towards Colombia, we got to know true Love Bug fans from Venezuela who invited us to their home. They even filled up Herbie with a couple Read more…
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Three Cents per Gallon
You probably won’t believe it, but a complete fill up for Herbie just costs 30 US-Cents in Venezuela. This is not a joke! Venezuela has the cheapest gas prices in the world. Herbie feels like he is in paradise. Gas Read more…
Meetings
Eggenburg 2012
Christian, Fabi and Georgy visited the biggest aircooled VW meeting in Austria with Flo’s ‘73 Buggy and Georgy’s ‘84 Mexican! The second one was fitted with standard tires at the front because the lowering doesn’t offer enough space for the Read more…
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Stuck at the Border
We literally stuck in the border town San Antonio in Venezuela, because the custom office is closed on weekends. We reached the border on a Saturday morning. After we got our immigration stamps we wanted to apply for the vehicle Read more…
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Colombia, we’ll be back!
A lot of slow trucks, countless construction sites and extremely steep roads Herbie had to manage the last days, while we were heading northeast towards Venezuela. It was very exhausting driving an average speed of 12 mph (or 20 km/h) Read more…
Repairs and modifications
Final work
The last days we finished the work on the Mexican. A lot of screws were replaced by stainless steel screws. The new steering knuckles slammed the bug 6cm! A bit too close, isn’t it?! Pictures of the finished bug will Read more…
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Go Herbie Go!
Herbie brought us back to Colombia. We left the Pan-American Highway heading east towards Venezuela after we passed cities like Pasto, Popayán and Cali. We were driving right through the heart of Colombia’s capital, Bogotá. Our plan is to visit Read more…
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The Evacuation Route
After spending the night in Latacunga, we followed our “Evacuation Route” out of Ecuador, passing Quito, Cayambe, Otavalo and Ibarra, crossing the border in Tulcán. We left the country with carrying more than 25 gallons (or 100 liters) of gasoline Read more…
Trips
Trip to Budapest #2
Flo and his dear friend Lisi made a trip to the capital of Hungary. Flo and his bug already knew the way because they had been there in the past as we had reported. It was a wonderful and funny Read more…
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Thirsty?
Domi loves drinking fresh coconut juice. Herbie prefers gas without ethanol instead. One coconut ($ 1.00) is more expensive than one quart of gasoline ($ 0.38). Ecuador has the cheapest gas prices we’ve experienced in America so far. A complete Read more…
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The Banana Republic
We just entered Ecuador on our way back north. Although this country is not a “Banana Republic” within the political discussion, it has definitely the biggest banana production in the world. Below you can see “Herbie goes bananas” while the Read more…