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Day 173

Details: Created on Saturday, 27 February 2016 08:05

02/24/2016 Seattle - Eugene (USA)

Today we lived the motto of the Delorean World Tour 'Worldwide Encounters / Global Encounters' again as well.
After 190 miles driving we met four Delorean owner from Portland (Oregon) and Vancouver (Washington), with whom we had made an appointment by email today.

Steve Maguire from Portland made a contact to the local TV station KGW 8-news beforehand, reporter Rachael Rafanelli and her cameraman also waited for us at the car park.

The interview with the World Tour team was broadcasted live on TV, here is the link to the online version:
http://www.kgw.com/news/delorean-world-tour-makes-a-stop-in-portland/54858094

The Delorean Drivers from Portland / Vancouver even escorted us around 60 km along the I-5 before we took a break for a common lunch, later we we drove the remaining 180 km to the day's destination Eugene.

There we met Delorean owner Oliver Marquardt from Dusseldorf, who is visiting the US for a few days and will be with us the next three days with his rental car.

Day 172

Details: Created on Thursday, 25 February 2016 09:39

Finally, we're on the road again!
At 9 o'clock we started from Vancouver to the US border in Blaine.

At the Canadian custom our carnets were stamped at the departure and the entry of the Deloreans was certified, after that we first of all got stuck in the traffic jam before the border. The following entry-procedure was done within 40 minutes, 6 dollars were paid for a stamp in the passport, and the World Tour Team could take country number 17 under the wheels.

Some miles after the border we made our first fuel stop on North American ground, the liter of petrol costs currently around 50 eurocents...

Our destination today was the Delorean workshop DMC Northwest in Seattle/Bellevue, here we were already expected by shop-owner Toby Peterson, Delorean-owner Andrew Wells as well as Oliver and Terry Holler with their time machine (www.tothefuture.org).

After two hours of Delorean-talk and presentation of our World Tour Deloreans we checked in at the nearby Days Inn Motel for the night, before the day ended with a common German-American dinner in a Chinese restaurant.

Here is our current timetable for the next weeks:

Day 171

Details: Created on Wednesday, 24 February 2016 03:53

02/2/2016 Vancouver (Canada)

Our last day in Vancouver!
Today we were able to pick up our passports with issued US visa at the consulate, again many thanks to the US mission in Vancouver, which allows us the accelerated procedure!