Carlo Angerer, 20, of Muehldorf, Germany, has lived and visited the Teche Area off and on since 2003.

He’s about to greatly expand his American horizons.

Angerer, a journalist and photographer, is back in the United States this summer and scheduled to write a weekly column that will be published on Sundays in The Daily Iberian.

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The first-person account will be about his journey as the German shares with our readers what he encounters across America.

He plans to file stories from Phoenix; Grand Junction, Colo.; Chicago and Nashville before ending his trip June 21 back in New Iberia.

Also, Angerer plans to post a daily diary of events that can be accessed via the newspaper’s Web site, www.iberianet.com, which will feature a link to Angerer’s Web site www.carloangerer.de/ontheroad. His stories will appear on the Web site starting today.

Angerer was an intern last summer with The Daily Iberian and with KLFY-TV 10 in Lafayette during the summer of 2005.

He was a foreign exchange student who stayed in New Iberia with Herman and Catherine Alleman while he attended Westgate High School.

He has stayed with the Allemans since on return visits and in February attended the wedding of his “host” sister, Ren/ Spangler Randall, in New Orleans.

Angerer, who played basketball for the WHS Tigers, graduated from Westgate in 2004.

He has enrolled in Morehead State University in Morehead, Ky., where he plans to major in journalism.

Angerer is the son of Walter and the late Lisa Angerer.

His father also lives in Muehldorf and works for the German government’s patent office in Munich.

His mother was a physician who practiced general medicine.