The thousands of miles traveled crossing the Rockies was worth it!

  

   That white wall behind the car is Snow!    We went to Glacier National Park where we flew like eagles. I hope the kids remember always that they are like eagles….not chickens!

  

     And we arrived at Yellowstone!                But the car overheated!

   

 

 But the Graham sleeps as snug as a bug in a rug!  

                                                   

 

 Inside the Graham we feel at home, we even have a DVD player!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Imagine that you can spend a night in the best 5 stars hotel which includes a wonderful meal… but only for you. What would you prefer, that hotel or camping with your loved ones? So why not look for more of those unforgettable moments that cost nothing and bring us so many memories?

 

 

 How much does it cost to go for a walk? How much does it cost our time? Which is the best way to invest it? How can we invest it the best? The biggest fortune doesn’t fill pockets, it fill hearts!!The one who has his heart full, is the millonaire. And it can be filled little by little with small investments…like…

Short walks….

 

 

 

Spending little moments with loved ones…   

 

 

New Friends...

 

And, the heart begins to fill... but don’t leave aside the best investment ever... we must always take care of the most beautiful investment, giving the best of ourself.

 

 

I know, that I didn’t bring anything with me when I was born… and I won’t take anything to the next life… Only I’ll take what I lived, so… I want to invest all my life simply in that! In living!! And that way of  living is our Dream!

 

 

I want to find reasons to jump of happines!!And I do found them every day! 

I keep falling in love with whom I’am already in love, as I found the treasure at the end of the Rainbow!

 

Does it exist a better way to start a day than waking up in the morning and see beside you the person that you love the most in the world!! And just a little over there the product of that love!!! It can’t be a better start!!!  One can feel as a millionaire, as for being one of it’s just a feeling. And I believe I am! as I feel it!

 

 

So… if happiness means to be close to the one we love… let’s focus on that!!!

 

 

 

About the other woman that when I saw her I realized that she is this class of woman, that one can’t stop falling in love with, that she can do whatever she wants because my love for her will forgive everything. A love that asks nothing in return and I will give everything to make her happy.

How could I not fall in love? She has these eyes with a look so but so pure, her skin so perfect, flawless…and her hand…so soft… With just one look you can’t help but fall in love. The first thing that one wants to do is hold her and feel her close to ones heart…its beautiful! I want to dance with her, I want to walk hand in hand to the park with her, I want to have those never ending conversations with her. I feel so much, and yet I just met you today…

Today Paloma you arrived in the world and you already have stolen someone’s heart. I am so in love it brings tears to my eyes, I feel wonderfully happy. To hold in my arms my little princess, how can I explain to you…?
Welcome to a wonderful world, a beautiful world that wants to be part of your life, of your Dreams. Welcome Paloma, my daughter…

Hello, how is everyone? What would you say if we told you that we have some very good news? What do you think it could be?

A. We sold all the books
B. Someone wants to make a movie using our story
C. We have sponsors that are going to pay our whole trip to Asia

If your answer was A, B, or C, you are WRONG! It’s something even better

D. We’ve spent all of our money
E. Our visas were denied
F. The Graham broke down again

If you think it s D, E, or F, WRONG AGAIN! Didn’t we say that it was Good news? News that we’ve given twice already. It’s the kind of news that involves life, that are blessed and eternal.

So, what could it be? Ok, we’ll give you three clues.

1. Cande’s belly’s starting to grow, and not just because of what’s she’s eating
2. Pampa and Tehue are going to have someone new to play with
3. The Graham’s going to have to make some more space in the backseat

Because….We’re not just four anymore!!! We are 5!!!!!
That’s right!!! We are pregnant!!

There someone else who wants in December 2007 to get on board this dream making it even more dreamy!! Will it be a boy or girl? It only matters that it will be a dreamer!

 

We send you a huge happy hug from the 5 of us!

ASIA ANOTHER DREAM

The family got larger and the Graham got bigger!!

A word from Cande:

I know there are many car-lovers. I must confess I wasn’t one but the Graham showed me not only the places and people of this world, but also the world of cars. All of a sudden I found myself very fond of my Graham. This is why the other day, at the garage, I started writing a love letter to him:

“Dear Graham,
It’s almost 9pm and here we are, in the garage, surrounding you, almost caressing you just looking at you. The background music always accompanies you. Even this late in the day, there is so many flurries of activity around you and this tinkering that makes so much noise that the changes made on you are evident by the minute. Without planning it, wonderful people surround you. Without planning it the DREAM flourishes right here in this garage… right here around you.

You, more than one else knows about Dreams .You smell of freedom, you radiate freedom. I can tell that looking into people’s eyes who visit you. They yearn to touch you and being carried away to far off destinations just to imagine you ready for the road.

Adrian has stripped you bare and we have gotten to see your inner self. It makes me sad to see you like this, colorless, an empty shell, without displaying any of those stickers that were witnesses to your many miles on the road. I didn’t even almost want to see you and I scarcely went to visit you. Eventually I even stopped visiting you, it got me down.

Marcos, Adrian, Herman, Nat, Nino and I have started “dressing you up” again little by little. I am amazed every day when I see the dedication and care they lavish on you. But what amazed me more than that is they are willing to make you look your very best.

Now, I can’t wait to come and visit you to see how you are making progress. The guys make fun of me; I always carried the tape measure because I love to measure every inch of you. But they don’t know that this is the way I pamper you.

Thank you, Graham for adjusting yourself to our DREAM. Thank you for changing without causing any problems. Now you will carry my family and you will travel along fresh new roads.
Thanks to you, Herman, for Dreaming as I dream.

Thank you, Pampa and Tehue for not impeding us to travel and, on the contrary, to enjoy the experience of traveling as much as we do.

Thank you, Adrian, Marcos, Nat, Nino and all those who lent a helping hand. Now we are more than a work team, we are a group of friends.

A kiss to you, Graham. Cande.

Hi, how are you? We are writing from our home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, cause we have a lot to tell you about what
happened after we returned.

When Lynden brought the car by ship to Argentina and we got the car out of the container, we drove straight to the obelisk, which is a landmark in downtown Buenos Aires from where we set out on our trip. Only this time we weren’t alone as on our departure day, we were surrounded by a host of people celebrating the fulfillment of a dream. Many vintage cars toured BA along with us, friends, family, the media, even people we had never met before create a big buzz!
As Pampa enjoyed the company of grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles and his pony, we set out on our trip again, but this time, we traveled by “pen and paper” We wrote the account of our trip, a task that took us eight months. We wrote down all that we felt, experienced, learned…about that conversation that touched us so much. We wrote about the people, the adventure. About love, the different places. How to run out of money changed everything, may we say, for the better. How little by little this Dream became the Dream of many. What it were like to become parents during such an experience and why when we were only 30km away from Alaska we didn’t want to get there. We didn’t want to finish.
We wrote a book, a true storybook where everybody’s dream become accomplished and inspire to everyone to fulfill theirs. Writing the book was a marvelous experience; it was amazing to relive those moments and remembering Pampa’s birth led to the desire to become parents again, to feel such happiness one more time. Why not have someone else to share our dreams with? Why not have our cup of happiness overflow again? And Tehue was born in March 2005, so we are now a family of four.

At the time Tehue turned 4 months old, Pampa 3 years of age and our book Atrapa tu Sueño ("Spark your Dream" in the English version) had been out for 8 months, we got into the 77-year-old car and set out on another trip. This time, around all Argentina touring from North to South. In those 9 months, over 16000km we collected experiences that would be tantamount to what we experienced during our trip to Alaska. Many things take place again: to be on the open road again, finding people who received us with open arms, as if they had been expecting us and feeling the freedom that you only experience while traveling.
We had over 200 invitations from all over the country, not to mention those that sprang up spontaneously. Once again, Pampa and Tehue collected a new grandpas, siblings and uncles, who bade them welcome, played and offered them a warm improvised, cozy bed. We feel that it is more than the four of us plus the Graham that these kind people offer lodgings to; they host the DREAM. Funnily enough, we had our share of visitors too! Roy, a Canadian that was our host in Canada traveled to Argentina to visit us and he even joined us for a week, sharing the trip with us on the Graham.
We were taken on joyrides on airplanes, we went horse riding in the Calchaqui valleys of the Argentine Northwest, we took part in vintage car rallies and this way the car has been also pampered and lavished with all kinds of treats too.
Getting the people caught up by the Dream, its gathers strength and the Book as well. The promotion and sale of Atrapa tu Sueño book long exceeded our expectations, becoming a best-seller. We have been around giving talks, book presentations. We have participated in events at shopping centers, at schools, at car shows and at different kind of fairs. We are still receiving rave reviews from people of all ages who have read it. It seems that a lot of people want to chase their Dream, because we have to reprint it 5 more times!

During the trip we went South to Patagonia where we both happily saw sea elephants in Peninsula Valdez, Tehue celebrated his first birthday making his first steps on the beach. Pampa willing to see penguins saw penguins by thousands. By the mythical Route 40 we kept going South. It stretches all the length of the Argentine territory and has acquired a special mystique… cause most of it is made of dirt…or rather, stones!. We helped with sheep-shearing at a sheep-ranch near the Perito Moreno Glacier. We visited the Torres del Paine Mountains, and we also took the ferryboat to the island of Tierra del Fuego, to reach the Southernmost point on the continent as part of a gorgeous parade of vintage cars.

 

And this brought back echoes of the time when we reached the Northernmost point of the continent, in Prudhoe Bay-Alaska, toasting and celebrating, cheering and jumping with joy. And there we felt the same again. The end of the road was there…and from then on, only the sea, as far as the eye could see…
– So Cande… now what?
– Let’s start again!

Huge snowflakes farewell us as we say goodbye to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. It was like confetti celebrating once again the fulfillment of a dream and one more time was due to the people. On one occasion, we learned of a man who bought our book, but he did it just to help us cause… he didn’t know how to read! He just wanted to be part! Or those families in that wind-swept city who wouldn’t be put off by the 65-mile gusts of winds and who turned up to see us give a book presentation as the newspaper announced.
Back at home again; both families and friends celebrate with us. And there was someone else waiting for us, Chris, from Fort Wayne, IN. She was ready to start translating our book into English for you to have the chance to read it and for us to share this dream. We do want to share this in the best way, spreading the word that dreams are more than just dreams, but a reason to live.

True there will be risks, but there can be no achievement without risk. If we stay at home taking care of nothing befall us…. How sad it would be that! Anyone who opens up their heart to people will find a human support and will get anywhere or do things that were deemed impossible. Our heart will never dream something that we are not capable of doing. We don’t have to forget that we ourselves can be our own dream worst enemy, and also be the best hope. We don’t wish you a dream without problems but the necessary strength to overcome them because it is not he who falls that makes it but he who rises back. The secret to fulfill a dream is just to…get started!

So it is back to square one! In January 2007 we expect to be back in the USA and Canada touring the country with our inseparable Graham for some 4 to 6 months. During this book tour we will share everything that we have learned, give talks at schools, universities, clubs and so on. As well as that, we will take part in car shows and similar events, exhibitions and fairs.

So if you are thinking of some event or gathering in which we may take part and share the experience, let us know! We would love to go and if we can find out in advance, we may plan ahead. In this way, you will be part of our next DREAM as you have been part of the trip to Alaska. Do you know why? Because after this promotional tour, selling the English version of the book, and in which we will visit the many friends we made during our trip to Alaska, we will set out for ASIA from the USA and in that way, we will start a new Dream… a new trip.

Fondest regards from your friends, the Dream Chasers.

Candelaria, Herman, Pampa and Tehue Zapp
THREE AMERICAS – ONE DREAM

We leave once again in Macondo Cambalache, with passengers Pampa, 3 years old and Tehue, 4 months headed in the direction of La Quinaca to later turn around south to get all the way to Ushuaia. We will travel for sure through the providences of Santa Fé, Chaco, Córoba, San Luis, Tucumán, Salta, Jujuy, Mendoza, Catamarca, San Juan, La Rioja, Neuguén, La Pampa, Santa Cruz, Chubut, Río Negro, and Tierra del Fuego. We will go to the big cities and the small villages. Why? We want to continue traveling!! We want to keep meeting new people. We have already received many wonderful invitations to various places and we want to go visit them. We experience the same thing that we lived in the four years of our previous trip. Nothing has changed, the people are the same here as there and we thoroughly enjoy ourselves. Sincere thanks for that.
We go to introduce the book “Atrapa tu Sueño”- “Spark your Dream” to some places where they have already heard about our book, and other places where they haven’t.
If you live there, or know someone who would like us to visit or can recommend a place people would like us to give a presentation about the book, tell us and off we’ll go!
While you’re reading this news, we are driving around at 30 miles an hour chasing our dream to some other new destination. Please stay in contact via email, we don’t want to loose touch.
A big hug and fond farewell!!!! Vroom, vroom, beep, beep.
Candelaria, Herman, Pampa and Tehue Zapp
THREE AMERICAS— ONE DREAM

Everything is great, with wishes to travel toward the mountains, which is our next dream to accomplish (choosing a place where we’d most like to live). In the coming weeks, we will head to Córdoba and after we are there for a while, we will go to La Quiaca visiting other providences.
In the car, we carried more people but fewer things than our previous trip. The whole back seat was given over to the boys, with a basket for toys and two bookracks in the back windows to hold all the books for Pampa and Tehue. The boys are enjoying the trip, Pampa never asks “are we there yet?” instead “Where are we going?” and when we arrive in any home, his first question is “Do you have any toys?” and he goes to amuse himself, all the while playing with the kids making friends and grandparents and aunts and uncles wherever we go. He never leaves any park, circus or puppet show with out first being thoroughly entertained. Happy children, happy parents.
We will write again from Córdoba.

Today is the 22nd of October, we should be in La Quiaca but we are in Paraná, Entre Rios, something seemed like we what happened on the trip to Alaska. Many, before we left on this trip told us “Since you are Argentinean, I don’t think the Argentineans will invite you to stay with them the way the Latin-Americans and North Americans did.” Nevertheless, they do and we are enjoying the trip tremendously. We’ve already spent two months where we haven’t stayed one night on our own, but instead in people’s homes. We can not name everyone but we can tell you what we are doing. From our house, we went to Venado Tuerto, Firmat, Chovet, Pergamino, San Nicolás, Rosario, Casilda, Chañar Ladeado, Monet Maíz, Cañada de Gómez, Las Rosas and then Paraná. This is how we spent almost two months in Santa Fe providence alone.

We are doing very well with the book tour, giving presentations using videos and photos in the libraries, reception rooms and bookstores. The people come and they leave captivated. Another thing we’re doing during this trip, just as we did on our last journey, is to stop in the pedestrian zones of the city or the city centers to talk to people and offer our book. Many people have already heard about us and come looking to meet Pampa, our son who was born on the journey, and Tehue, the newest member of our family. Others have already read the book and happily come to meet us and say hello, to touch the car and to sit behind the wheel to feel the reality of something they had only imagined while reading the pages of the book. Others invited us to cookouts, lunches, they treat us to mate tea…they offer us so much that we believe we’ll come home with some extra weight. We stay in Rosario longer than we thought because it’s a big city and we had a ball. We go to San Nicolás for the day of the Virgin of San Nicolás. We go to the national festival of Porcino (Pork) in Chañar Ladeado where Herman is a judge to select the queen of the festival. We take part in the Fiesta of Mate in Las Rosas-Sante Fé where Chaqueño Palavecino sings. We travel from fiesta to fiesta where the Municipalities made a little place for the Graham and us.

We send to all of you a big hug from the road

Cande, Herman, Pampa and Tehue Zapp
TRES AMERICAS – UNA HUELLA