Into Ice, Wind and Thin Air at 6000 Meters The drive to Riobamba started out pretty tame, but things got wild fast once our little bus hit those first Andean curves. Packed with about twenty passengers, the driver tore through the Andes like there was no tomorrow—overtaking on blind curves, slamming the brakes, then accelerating… Read More Climbing Chimborazo: The Night the Mountain Drew the Line
From the streets of Lima to Machu Picchu — with uncertainty never far away. When I landed in Lima, it didn’t feel like arriving in a new country — but more like stumbling into a different reality.Just a few hours earlier I had been in clean, polished, orderly, controlled Miami.This view from the airplane window:… Read More Peru: Traveling Ahead of the Cholera Outbreak
Bureaucracy, Patience, and the 5 Points that Changed Everything The plan was simple: Fly from Kupang in Timor -Indonesia to Darwin in Australia, then do a bit of traveling, and see what that country has to offer. I found out soon enough! after five months, the Red Continent had me hooked. I was head-over-heels. The… Read More Australia: My Residency Odyssey
“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
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