About us

We set out to our journey on March 1st, 2011, exhausted from the weeks before which had been a very tiresome experience. You accumulate a lot of stuff in your ‘normal’ life, which is sometimes not that easy to get rid of and always comes with some kind of commitment: Flat, furniture, car, contracts and so on. Of course there are also many things we needed to figure out before the trip, e.g. visas, vaccinations or drafting a travel plan according to climate.

We just got it all done in time and badly needed a few days of ‘vacation’ in Thailand before venturing towards more ‘exotic’ destinations in order to live, feel and taste something else than everyday’s life. So it is a  bit of an escape from the routine, the well-known, the comfort zone, to gather plenty of new experience in the unknown.

Who we are: Quite a European blend with Polish, Austrian, Italian, German roots, family, and education, we like travelling and exploring the world and its adventures. 

After roughly a month we adjusted to living out of our backpack, the constant location change, sleepless nights on busses, getting sick with stomach and other diseases, different food, temperature, customs and behaviour.

In the second month we had to cope with the fact that despite skype, email and telephone, our immediate social community basically consisted of just one person and that colleagues, friends and family were far away. Connecting to other travellers is an interesting but often superficial experience, meeting local people has usually time constraints, and both cannot replace home.

After three months en route we felt more than happy with our trip so far. We adapted to the routine of being on the road, changing our surroundings quite often, spending hours in transit; we enjoyed the positive more and were less irritated by the negative. We also love to observe the gradual shifts in landscape, culture and all aspects of social life as we move along.

Five months on the way we were realizing how our perspective had changed and become much more critical. Many guys at home will probably think we are stupid not to simply appreciate being in all those exotic places, but it is just that now we have lots of comparisons with other places and see everything with different eyes than a three-week tourist.

More and more of our discussions circle around topics like overpopulation, foreign aid or issues related to society. We feel that the world is dramatically changing and ask ourselves if the western world in its coziness fully understands the implications of the huge population numbers with all their economic needs, political ambitions and cultural differences to us.

Having passed the eight-month mark being on the road became fun again. There are several things that we enjoyed a lot in those weeks: Adventures in pure nature in Mongolia, city life in Shanghai, a vacation from travelling on the Philippines, and making our journeys separately from each other for a couple of weeks.

Two months took us through Indonesia, a huge and incredibly diverse country. Again, we did by far not have enough time to explore all regions we would have liked to visit, but we wanted to have time left for New Zealand which we explored until mid March in our campervan.

And that’s where this fantastic journey ended after almost thirteen months…