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So my wife's boss asks her if we are interested in using their 2 bedroom condo timeshare at the St. Regis in Aspen, Colorado for no charge as they will not be able to go this year due to a trip to Egypt they got invited to do (Rich people ). So we smelled roadtrip and got our rearends to beautiful Aspen , the skiing season starts next week but we did get some snow for the kids to play around with. We did nothing but relax , play , pool time and sleep. Oh forgot to say T25 is not ready just yet so we did this on a VW Jetta





That's what happens when you have a unique name



On our way back we decided to stop at Moab and visit Arches National Park.











This is were the holiday turns VW related , I had spotted a T25 with euro plates on the highway but couldn't tell where they were from but later in the day on one of the trails at the Park a euro looking dude asks me if I am mexican , I was not wearing my "sombrero" so it was not obvious I guess , so the guy is interested in knowing how safe it is to travel to Mexico as they shipped their T25 from France and they are on a 1 year trip from North America and want to end in Costa Rica in June of 2011 , we got to talking and they will be spending the night at our place when they get to California before crossing to Mexico sometime in december , they are traveling with 2 kids about the same age as mine , so talk about a trip of a lifetime , they are doing this on a '90 Westfalia turbo diesel. Anyways here is a picture of their ride.

Looks like you had a great time and those photo's are stunning. I take it the family you met were french?

Mark

pocolow wrote:Looks like you had a great time and those photo's are stunning. I take it the family you met were french?

Mark

Yes Mark, they were French , good for them they speak some English and a bit of Spanish.
Cheers.


Juan.

Stunning pictures, what a contrast.
Those Frenchies are braver than I, ...

Costa rica?... sheesh!
what possesses these people to put themselves in harms way

what possesses these people to put themselves in harms way

Adventure

Time for an update after a long december break , well the French family stopped by and spent the night at our place like we had talked about , we had some Carne Asada so they could get used to Mexican food , we talked and they had plans to cross the border early next day with 2 other families traveling south on their campers , a Canadian and a German family. Well we talked about a safe route to go across Mexico and wave them away next morning. Later that day I got a call from them saying they only got a few meters into Mexico when their Westy started running rough , so they turned back to the US and called me for help. I towed them back to my place where they would spend the next few days until the problem was fixed. Good thing is he is a mechanic so he got into opening the engine and found a bad headgasket , we then went hunting for it and found it the next day at a VW parts shop a few miles from my house. We got the head "rectified" (not sure if this is the correct word) and he begun putting the engine back together , he had the Van running again , test drove it a bit around town and south they went again. They have gone down the Baja peninsula crossed the ferry to Mazatlan and are now in Puerto Vallarta , they will then go to Guadalajara, Guanajuato , Mexico City on their way to Cancun before crossing to Belize and further south to Costa Rica.

This is their blog that chronicles their travels http://dd.aux.zameriques.over-blog.com/

ib-bus, your thread is kinda spooky. I am an ex pat Brit living in France and I have seen that French family featured in a classic car mag "Gasoline" I think. My sister lives over your way in Vegas and I am planning on visiting her this year. Last night the wife and I said we might hire a car and do the Pacific coast highway and US part of the Baja .......... basically its a small world eh?