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New Design

// June 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // blog

Next to setting up my new photo-website, yet another thing on my list since long: to host my blog myself and change how it looks. Finally accomplished. I am happy how it integrates with my photos and also other features, such as the ‘lifestream’ with all sorts of my online activity that are automatically generated [...]

Somewhere in Portugal

// April 23rd, 2010 // No Comments » // blog, hitchhiking, travel

Hundred-and-fifty people and amazing fun in Paris two years ago, just over a hundred in Odesa last year (a lot harder to get to, see video) and non-stop hitching adventures. The ones gathered are hitchhikers, first-timers and hardcore travelers. Nice reunions of friends and contacts, of people who share-alike. Both times I helped (un)organising the [...]

Happy Celebrations

// April 14th, 2010 // No Comments » // blog, life

This year I had a really great birthday-celebration. As a surprise I received dozens of e-mails and phone-calls from all sorts of (old) friends and people who stayed over in my house. And quite some people also came over to celebrate my 32th with me. The day started with a great practical joke: on the [...]

Travel Without Papers

// March 12th, 2010 // 7 Comments » // travel

What’s the single most important thing to bring with you when traveling – except your sense of humour and knowing where you’re going? Right, your passport or any other form of official identification. And that’s exactly what I forgot before going to Berlin to attend a pre-meeting for the 2010 edition of the European Hitchgathering. [...]

Trusting Freely

// February 11th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // blog, life

How one thing leads to another. How one ride goes into the next. Always bringing me further. I surrender to the route that is shaping me. Grounded on earth, but flying like a bird. How do I decide what is next? I leave it be, I wait for ideas to come, play with them; juggle [...]

Home Sweet Roads

// October 12th, 2009 // 8 Comments » // blog, travel

Ever since leaving Amsterdam to the 789 hitchhiking festival in the Ukraine, I didn’t stop traveling and I hitched around 8000 kilometer. I was ready for a new adventure though and wanted to give HitchBiking a try, not with a foldable bike but with the new mountain-bike that I was given in Barcelona. My goal [...]

Magic happens when you allow it

// September 19th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // blog, travel

It has been 7 weeks since I left Amsterdam. I was planning to be on the road for some weeks only, but events led me to keep on going. And now I am back (again) in my old home-town: Barcelona. I keep saying it, but it keeps amazing me how wonderful it is to hitch [...]

Roaming freely

// August 26th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // blog, hospitality, travel

For more than a year I was looking forward to this month. The 7th of August 2009 was going to be the best hitchhiking day this year, I had this feeling in advance, but in reality it turned even better than expected. First of all, I picked up a fellow traveler from a petrolstation rigth [...]

hitchhiking works

// June 10th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // blog, travel, work

Jobs and me don’t go well together and the only reason why I liked my last job so much was because of the hitchhiking. I did it twice a week, up and down to Den Haag without much troubles. I had great rides, received fantastic stories and shared many things with the more than 50 [...]

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