In May of 1993, Padma and I drove our Volkswagen combi van from Syria to Germany.
We were heading north on A22 bound for Austria after spending a night at Lago di Garda. But the to east the Dolomites were beckoning. We pulled off the A22 at Ora Auer and drove up a windy road past vineyards to Canazei. We found a campground in Canazei and spent the next day hiking up the mountains as far as we could go until the snow turned us back.