“Don’t you get bored?” Ah yes. That question. It always comes with that slightly concerned look. And it almost always comes from someone who has never spent a single night in a van. From the outside, I get it. Vanlife looks like a permanent vacation.No office, no fixed schedule, no meetingsJust sunsets, freedom, and suspiciously… Read More Boredom in Vanlife – Really?
Let’s take a closer look at power for a minute — not the glossy, endless-sunshine version of vanlife, but the real, rain-soaked, everyday kind. I’ve been on the road for months now, including what turned out to be the wettest winter Spain has seen in years. Long grey stretches. Days of steady rain. Very little… Read More Off-Grid for Months: How I Live Without Plugging In
The Long Way North – Guatemala City to Mexico Looks easy on a map, doesn’t it? About 1,500 kilometers, give or take. A nice straight line pointing north. In reality? It’s a slog through dirt roads that’ll rattle your teeth loose, heat that makes you question every life choice that brought you here, and bus… Read More “On Four Hundred Dollars to Cancún”
Following the Trail of the World’s Highest Waterfall June 7th – Crossing into Venezuela My internal alarm clock wakes me just in time to grab my backpack and dash across the street to the Rodoviaria of Boa Vista. The bus is running late! With my last few Cruzeiros I treat myself to a coffee and… Read More Venezuela: A Journey to the Angel Falls
“The Taste of disgust” I arrive in a tiny mountain village on Flores with that typical backpacker optimism – you know, the kind that makes you think Indonesia is just one big adventure waiting to happen. The sun has already disappeared behind the jagged peaks, my legs are burning from hours of trekking, and the… Read More Nightmare in the Indonesian Highlands… Read More Nightmare in the Indonesian Highlands
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