Doing 50 in the Hammer Lane
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.07.02 | 1:19 AM ET
It’s not uncommon for American long-distance truckers to buy motorhomes and continue to travel around the country when they’re retired. Some of them get so attached to their rigs, though, that they don’t want to leave them. Instead, they find old trucks and convert them to motorhomes. Road King correspondent Gary Bricken tracked down a few of them, including Josef and Katharina Schmitz of Dusseldorf, Germany. The couple spent five years traveling around the world in their converted 18-wheeler. “We just finished a two-year trip all over Australia, where we went completely around the country and then criss-crossed it both ways,” Josef told Bricken. “Then we shipped the truck to California and went down into Mexico then back up into Arizona. Now we are on our way to South America for another two-year journey. Everywhere we have been people have been nice.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
