The author is a woman of an advanced age who lives in Bavaria (Germany) which borders on Austria. Even though she had a fulltime occupation, she managed to find to supervise bus tours as a tour guide throughout Europe. It was here, where she started writing diaries on her travel experiences. After her husband had passed away, she shifted her priorities and started traveling with her two dogs and an RV through all of Europe. After having gathered enough experiences there, she dared to make the big jump across the Atlantic and booked a five-month travel tour which took her from Washington to Mexico. This is where her plan of doing the same, but on her own, was born.