2014 Oranje Trophy

One of the great things about my job is meeting interesting people. Today these folks from the Netherlands were down in Battery Park to start the Oranje Trophy. The send their vehicles over from Holland and they are driving cross country to California and then on to the World Cup in Rio. They have caravanned to Beijing, and across Africa. For years I have thought about doing something like this. It seems to be more common as I speak to two or three people a month that have brought their car over to tour the states. http://www.oranjetrophy.nl/2014/

Their Route:

Group Photo. This is the second time in a month I talked to someone driving an old Peugeot cross country. a few weeks back I spoke to a French Family that sent their wagon over. Opel Rodeo? More of my pictures on Facebook. You should be able to see them without logging in. https://www.facebook.com/wally.m.9/media_set?set=a.10153948650210500.1073741838.898405499&type=3&uploaded=12

Opel 1900 Ascot!

I would like to have a 2 door.

That looks like fun.

That looks like it would make Targa Newfoundland seem profoundly cheap.

Fun, though.

I saw three of their cars this morning on Route 32, headed west. We were just east of Ft. Meade at the time.

Of course no one wants to come through StL. It's not in the middle of the US or anything.

They were pretty excited to get to Graceland, that may put them too far south for St Lewis.

In reply to Wally:

St Lewis? Right St Louis' Spanish cousin.

That would be St Luis I don't know where I got Lewis

Isn't Luis Mexican? Lewis would be Spanish? I dunno...

If there is one thing I know about Dutch soccer fans, it is that the drink a lot and usually have hot women with them.