After The End
The strange thing about a goal is that once you reach it, you need a new one – almost immediately. The magic force that pulled you is all of a sudden gone. There’s nothing ahead, which creates a slight sense of empty panic. It’s the road that makes a journey worthwhile. The goal itself almost doesn’t matter… In […]
Carretera Austral
The famous carretera austral, the highway 7 in Chile, is a 1,240 kilometer (770 mi) long road connecting remote regions of Patagonia. More than half of it is still unpaved. We weren’t quite sure where to begin at first. The starting point is around Puerto Mont, but requires three ferry rides. Another option is to visit the big island of Chiloe and take […]
Northern Argentina
Coming out of the Bolivian highlands, we spent a few days warming up and restocking in San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, before moving on to Argentina. The touristic little desert town has a calm atmosphere with a lovely plaza and stunning volcanoes surrounding it in the distance. On merely 2400m life is easy. It […]
Southern Peru
After a three months summer break in Turkey, we came back to a dusty truck that had been patiently waiting for us in Lima. Our friends Claudia and Mathew had provided a nice parking spot inside their building. Before any new travels we had to work on reinstating our car permit. This meant patiently waiting in […]
Central Peru
The route we followed through central Peru, became our first round trip on this journey. That is to say, we left Lima, only to come back to it in a few weeks. We had decided to take a summer break in Turkey to meet our families, and flying out of the capital was our best option. The preparation for this interruption […]
Amazonia
Ecuador is breathtaking. Literally. Not only because of its beauty but in particular because of the high altitudes of the Andes. As an Austrian, Sarah should be used to mountains, but a 2000m peak is considered high where she comes from, and is likely a glacier with no trees or much life, other than tourists on skiers. […]
Panama
Panama sits right in between the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Americas. This is where continents and oceans come so close to each other but remain somewhat divided. The famous canal was dug through the land and completed with great difficulty back in 1914. That took care of the ocean traffic. Now ships can slowly pass through an array of […]
Costa Rica
All of a sudden the hustle and bustle, the cows, pigs, chicken, and horses in the streets, the people walking on highways, riding in truck beds, the sensory overload of liveliness we had experienced in Central America so far, disappeared. But still it is filled with something different. Something very beautiful. People here often greet […]
CA-4
Challenge and pleasure always take turns when you travel. It feels like a condensed, concentrated version of life. We experience the ups and downs in high frequency like life on a roller coaster. In these past few months we spent more time with each other and had more exhilarating and demanding experiences than we would have had […]
Into the Chiapas
Zipolite Beach is supposedly one of the world’s most deadly beaches, because of its strong currents. It’s also one of the rare nude beaches in Mexico. It has a relaxed, ‘hippie’ feel to it, with camping for only 70 pesos a night (about 5 USD!), a fun bar and people bringing you coconuts and food all […]
