bought the tickets and of we were off to the country of unlimited possibilities... You can imagine how exited Bruno our youngster with 14 years of age was to travel for the first time to the US. 
After a full day of travelling the team met up at different airports during layovers as everybody had to travel from a different home base. The majority got together in Duesseldorf, flew to Munich and picked up two more riders to travel further to Philly/PA. Luckily Tobias and myself had a seat next to Mr. J. Daniels so the flight was full of nice conversations.
There we had 3 hours of stress incl. 4!!! security checks each and finally made it to our connecting flight to State College/PA. Unfortunately without a Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich.
Arriving in Woodward/PA after a short drive we met up with Axel Jurgens and Ben Hennon who warmed up the rooms already - YES!!!! Camp Woodward, here we are. Rosario, Axel's wife, even welcomed us with two awesome cakes, we were super stoked on that.Later that night I picked up Alessandro Barbero who flew directly from Milano/Italy. For some reasons 3 out of 8 people had bags missing, I guess US Airways are really into Eastpak G-Turns and Arround the World Bike Bags. But yeah, all of them showed up, only Hannu had to suffer two days without a bike.
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