Scherer Family ~ European RV Tour: A travelling we will go...

With most of the shopping taken care of in Constance, we wandered on. This blog covers several days of travel but some thoughts along the way (most of them to do with the cold weather).

Sometimes 15km off the freeway feels more like 50km. I was pushing for a hard schedule - get to/near Lubbecke fast so we have time to finish our shopping and gift wrapping. Alas, the going is always a bit slower than we anticipate and we found ourselves reaching 4pm with another 100km to go. I found a promising "free" site in Nagold, supposedly only 15km off the freeway.

Suffice it to say, while the town looks interesting to explore in the summer, it was the coldest we'd encountered yet. And the most expensive "free" site with electricity available at 1 Euro/kwh! It got down to 14-degrees F (I think that's -6-degrees C). The inside of the windshield was iced up as were the interirors of the cabinets.

We promptly moved on the next morning. Sadly, the town was too far away from the Stellplatz in this weather for us to enjoy.

Our next stopover was at Biggesee - where we overnighted at a very large, very nice campground. Getting to the campground was pretty easy, though it's definitely not near shopping. Getting out, we didn't pay attention to the route mapped by AutoRoute, and it was a bit sketchier driving. I have to remember AutoRoute will always keep you moving forward and doesn't have the ability to know that we are driving a big, heavy, wide motorhome and should avoid hairpin turns and narrow roads.

Given the frost, all external water was turned off for the winter. We were able to fill up water from one of their wash sinks, and did laundry. There were plenty of other caravans, but the campground was largely deserted for the time we were there. Yes, it was cold - I thought these pictures were cool ... the beautiful sunset and the icy, crystal clear morning.