The Best for Last
And now, at the end of my journey, my last report. I spent most of my time on Hawaii (in between driving around and admiring the starry sky) thinking back […]
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Hawaii Part 3 – Where You Can’t See the Star Constellations for the Stars
And now we come to „my“ island – real name also Hawai’i, and so as not to confuse people, commonly referred to as Big Island. Big Island is amongst the […]
Hawaii Part 2 – Meandering in Maui
For 6 days, I enjoyed life on Kauai, then I moved on to Maui – island of beach resorts and the famed „Road to Hana“. The beach resorts on the […]
Hawaii Part 1 – An End and a Beginning
My journey is nearly over, whilst I am writing this, I am looking into the sun setting over Big Island, and thinking that in presumably five days I’ll be seeing […]
Oh Canada
I believe the world needs more Canada – Bono Forgive me because I was too lazy to write in the last weeks – but perhaps I was just laid back, […]
Cuba Libre (Really?)
„You should go to Cuba now, while it still is the real Cuba“ – do I detect a little bit of cynicism in this sentence, in it’s unspoken wish to have […]
Nepal braucht Hilfe / Nepal Needs You
Nepal braucht Hilfe / Nepal needs your help English below Mit einem sehr schweren Herzen habe ich die Nachrichten aus Nepal verfolgt – ein Land, welches von grosser Armut, mangelhafter […]
What Does an Arachnophobe Do in the Jungle?
Ask herself how she could have been so stupid and go into the jungle as an arachnophobe, of course. I think I really believed it would be a brilliant idea […]
Disney Land in Machu Picchu
It had to happen – on the last day in Bolivia I ate the wrong thing, and the revenge of the Inkas (or perhaps of Copacabana, after I called it […]
A Right to a Coast! (?)
I knew there was a reason to feel a bit suspicious towards Chile (quite independently from own personal experiences): That country is greedy! Nearly 5000 kilometers of coast line weren’t […]
Breathless in Bolivia
It was sheer coincidence that I went to Bolivia – I took a map, looked at what I could reach from San Pedro de Atacama, heard about a „Uyuni Tour“, […]
Travelling with Pachamama – The Earth Mother
A bit weary from my prior experiences I joined the Pachamama-Bus in Santiago, to travel in five days to San Pedro de Atacama, together with a mixed group of people. […]
Slumming it in Valdivia
I arrived in Valdivia, a bit exhausted from my experience with the Mapuche family and the long bus journeys. I was to help in a café in nearby Parque Oncol, […]
A Mapuche Experience
At this point, I wanted to tell how I lived with a Mapuche-family and what I learned while doing it, but it all turned out differently; so this is a […]
Further Stories from Easter Island
The story of Easter Island I have already told. Here now are a few loose ramblings: The seeking people apparently came from Polynesia originally, the exact date of the first […]
Big Land Rapa Nui – The Navel of the World
Today, I want to tell a story. Once upon a time, there was a tribe of people who were looking for a better world. They finally came to a little […]
Praying Mantras
India – Land of a billion+ people, 300 million+ gods, and the holy cow. Land of great wealth and unimaginable poverty. Land of colors – brilliant saris, artfully woven pashminas, […]
Thoughts about the Meaning of Travel for my Life
A look back, and a look forward. 10 months and 5 days ago, I left home to travel, the aim being to journey around the world once, in my pocket […]
And Goodbye – Australia
My new motto: I seem to have quite a lot of entries featuring “Goodbye”, I notice. After ca. 5 weeks, it’s farewell again. I had a great time in Australia, […]
The Uber Thing
I do not like travel-days. A joke, really, because I’ve got so many of those, travel is the reason I live the way I live, but fact is: I don’t […]
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