Today is my hitchhiking anniversary: it’s been four years since I first put up my thumb to stop a car! I’m giving Facebook an applause for it’s ‘memories’ thing that brings up gems like this photo of me catching my first ever ride. I don’t want to sound dramatic, but it has proven to be quite Read more >
I Wrote a Travel Guide and It Has Nothing To Do with Hitchhiking
Long time no blog! But I have been legitimately busy. I arrived in Uruguay about three weeks ago and decided to first travel around the country, as far and wide as possible. Before that I was writing a travel guide together with a Real Digital Nomad™ (someone who travels and works from a laptop and Read more >
A Quiet Birthday
Pfew… That time of the year is over again! Last week I turned 25 and the day just passed like that. It’s the second time I’m in Buenos Aires, Argentina on my birthday, but it was really different from when I went from 19 to 20 at my guest family. This time year: no celebration, Read more >
Five Years Ago
The past weeks I’ve been very silent on the blog and social media. BUT I HAVE RESURFACED! The last major update from Ushuaia, Argentina, was about quitting smoking and I know you might be thinking I started again, but that’s not the case at all. That’s actually going mighty fine! Five years ago to the Read more >
“The End of the World” – or whatever…
Twelve days ago I had my last ride to Ushuaia, Argentina, also known as “The End of the World” (Argentina’s greatest marketing success!) and smoked my last cigarette upon arrival. Today I leave the place that embraced my – for now – last cigarette butt and hitchhike back to where the sun wants to shine. Read more >
Vlog: Border Crossing Chile to Argentina
In my second vlog I'm hitchhiking across the border from Chile to Argentina over two days time. It requires me to take a (highly subsidized) Chilean ferry across a beautiful lake and deal with immigration and no man's land between the two countries. It's autumn in South America in April and I'm still going further south, into the cold! Patagonia is a beautiful place to hitchhike though and after almost 90 days in Chile, it's time for a little change. Read more >
Chiloé Archipelago
It’s hard to imagine I’ve spent nearly two weeks here, but the time really did fly by island hopping and digital detoxing in the Chiloé Archipelago. It’s a group of islands in the south of Chile that many drivers had spoken of before about how special this place is. Not a single driver was like Read more >
It’s a Vlog! Hitchhiking Southern Chile
I had been playing around with this idea for a while now but here it is: my first vlog! Some fans had showed their interest before in me making a video of a day in the life of a hitchhiker, but I never really went for it until now. It took some nerves to use that 'recording' button for the first time with my face in it, but what's really the difference from taking a photo? That's just besides my complete lack of video editing skills until I tried with the help of Windows Movie Maker and what Youtube provides, with tips from a friend. It took me hours to put this baby together, but I'm sure that if you… Read more >
Blackberries: Autumn is the New Summer
It’s the season of the free blackberries in the south of Chile! Nearly all my hitchhiking spots were surrounded by these bushes. Somehow, nobody else eats them. I wonder why, as it’s tasty, healthy and most importantly completely free. A bush like this in a public area in Europe would have been looted the minute Read more >