Tag: backpack
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Cruising the Kinabatangan in Borneo
A visual story of our Kinabatangan wildlife spotting trip in Malaysian Borneo.
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Hiking Sri Lanka’s Hill Country: birds, a modern monk and two stray dogs
We took the easy way off the beaten track and asked a guide to show us the rural life of Sri Lanka
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We planned not to plan but then we changed plans
When we started this thing back in January, we planned not to plan too much. Our route mainly consisted of hunches on what would be an interesting new stop. We had some successes and some, well, interesting experiences. We only had two parts in our trip that were set: the family visits in Peru and…
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Off the beaten track: hit and miss
Picking the next destination is a gamble: you win some, you lose some
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Traveling means saying goodbye. A lot.
We have been busy with making sure that we can leave. And with busy, I mean that we are constantly arranging things. Getting a backpack that is big enough, cleaning our apartment, handing over our jobs to successors and planning to see all our loved ones at least once before we take off.
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A small journey through our route in South America (Part 3: Peru)
Planning ahead has never been my strong suit. Professionally, I am well organized, but in my natural habitat, home, I usually go with the flow. Exceptions to that rule have been moving into our apartment and getting married, which I have pretty much completely drawn out in Excel. Going on a 10 month adventure however, I…
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How I found out I was wrong
Some people are extremely good at making estimations. Judging a situation, predicting an outcome and, because they are good at it, finding out that they were right. I like to call those people realists. Okay, that’s not what I like to call them (I find know-it-all or annoying more suiting), but yeah, it’s what they’re called.…
Ingelse around the globe 