Worldschooling: Árbol de Vida, Waldorf, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Every travel leg we check with the kids if they would like to go to a school. We don’t really press them to go to a school but do pres...
This is where we write about our adventures, challenges and learnings in our lives as digital nomad family with the wide open road of life before us.
Every travel leg we check with the kids if they would like to go to a school. We don’t really press them to go to a school but do pres...
For the second part of our 2021/2022 travel leg, we chose to spend it in San Miguel de Allende. So many people recommended this city to us, ...
We chose to combine school in Holland with school on the road. Sometimes school on the road means a 'normal' school in a building in a forei...
It has been a great travel leg in the Riviera Maya area for the last few months. In this post a recap of our adventures. We decided to t...
We are back on the road! Mexico it is! For how long? We don’t know! Start: Playa del Carmen and Isla Holbox...
We have been in Holland for a year now, due to Covid travel restrictions around the world. We have spend our first winter in Holland in 10(!...
Almost every time we share our life story and our plans for the near future, many people ask us: ‘when your daughter turns five, she m...
Our last month in this beautiful jungle paradise. We enjoyed it to the fullest before catching a few planes home. Corona changed the way we ...
We just returned to The Netherlands after an 8 month stay in Costa Rica. We traveled four full days with two young children to get home. Fro...
In april 2020 a lot of things happened on a global scale. Covid-19 spread around the globe and Costa Rica had to close its borders. This mea...
A rescue mission to get our VW t2 Combi Westfalia out of Costa Rica onto a ship to sail to Rotterdam! This month it has been 8 years ago sin...
On March 13, 2020 Costa Rica closed its international borders for tourists arriving to the country. Beaches closed, schools closed and peopl...
In March 2020 Costa Rica closed its borders to foreign visitors due to Corona virus and we decided to stay. Watching the world struggle with...
Many of our readers ask us if our children speak Spanish by now since we have spend so much time with them in Spanish speaking countries. In...
After two months of traveling in December and January, school started again for our kids in Costa Rica. In this video you will see a short s...
In our continuing search for sunshine, friendship and adventure we travelled through Mexico. From Pie de la Cuesta, Acapulco to Isla Holbox....
This month we left the jungle and wild animals from Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica to travel to Mexico. In Mexico we celebrated a unique Christmas...
During this month we really felt like we settled in Puerto Viejo. The kids enjoyed the combination of their school, the beaches and all the ...
We get this question often: ‘when you move to a new place, how do you settle back in?’ And: ‘is it not tiring to ‘st...
For the first time since 2011, we have decided to make a small video each month about our travels. This video is merely for ourselves and ou...
The rain starts pouring down. It’s getting colder. We long for new adventures, looking forward to spend time as a family. For us it ar...
For everyone who is looking at this picture thinking: ‘hey, their bus was in Costa Rica right? How can they be camping with it in Holl...
Our daughter, 3,5 years old by the time of writing this blog, is a very Dutch looking girl: pale blonde hair and fiery blue eyes. Tall for h...
On april 28th 2019 we started the long journey back to Holland where we will spend a few summer months with family and friends. The entire j...
The travel leg (2018/2019) we decided to split it in two destinations again: Spain and Costa Rica. It is always a Spanish speaking country b...
Time has come for us to start saying goodbye to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca and to Costa Rica for now after an explorative stay of a few month...
One of the reasons for us to go and live a while in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca in Costa Rica, is it’s abundant wildlife. To feel cl...
The situation So we setup camp in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica. A small town in the middle of the jungle, close to the beach and a ...
We have found a great school for our daughter Isa close to Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. For the coming two months, every morning we bring her t...
The sound of howler monkeys is coming from the jungle behind our house. The sun is rising somewhere behind the trees. And if we listen caref...
The last two weeks we spend in Playa del Carmen, Mexico contemplating what to do with our second VW van, La Rojita. She has been with us for...
After several years of house-sitting and staying with family, we felt a need to have our own space again. To unpack our bags and put our stu...
Since our daughter was born we also have been speaking Spanish with her in addition to the Dutch that is our own native language. We wondere...
This is the poem that inspired the name for our website. It spoke straight to our hearts and we hope it speaks to yours as well. By Walt Whi...
As part of our exploration trips, we visited Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands belonging to Spain, off the Moroccan coast. In these explor...
Every year we spend about 6 months abroad and 6 months in The Netherlands. After exploring the beautiful island of Tenerife in Spain for thr...
The summer months of 2018 we were in Holland and explored ways to actually live there as a family, while holding on to our own terms as much...
Isa loves to play outside, get dirty and be around animals. We thought it would be great for her to spend some time at a farm in the summer ...
Sweet, sweet boy, welcome to this great world. We are so lucky to have you! You came at your own time, later than expected in week 42 +1 day...
Since a couple of weeks we are back in Mexico for another nine months of Digital Nomad fun. This time we will probably be traveling a little...
As you probably have seen in out previous posts, we travelled from Mexico to Costa Rica to shoot a documentary together with our friends and...
Together with a good friend we had an amazing week in the port of Thessaloniki (the ship needed some work). But we also enjoyed a few days s...
A road trip with a baby in a vintage VW van: in 3 months from Mexico to Costa Rica. ‘You are going to do what?! With a baby? ButR...
In february 2017 we were honored to receive Diana’s parents in Costa Rica. Diana’s parents have been visiting us quite a bit ove...
The last vlog in this series shot during a two month crossing of Central America. A video about driving back to Costa Rica and almost not ge...
The most epic week of the entire filmmaking roadtrip deserves a longer post. Man, I could write a book about this week. When we were plannin...
Like I wrote in the post about visiting a community called Inan Itah on the island of Ometepe, Nicaragua. This was an extraordinary week. Ma...
Watch us cross borders: El Salvador to Honduras and Honduras into Nicaragua. A lot of paperwork, copying and waiting. And just when you thin...
An exciting part of the journey is about to start as we cross into unknown territory. Never before we traveled this far south. For the first...
We have been cruising through Mexico and Guatemala the last few weeks, two countries we know quite well but we had a lot of fun doing it wit...
We stayed at beautiful Lake Atitlán in Guatemala for almost a week to explore its surroundings and to get in touch with people who live at ...
On december 5th 2016 the day has arrived that we will leave for our filmmaking roadtrip! We are currently camping out of campsite Rancho San...
In november 2016 we took two weeks to prepare the VW vans for the exiting trip to Costa Rica. The mountain village of San Cristobal de las C...
Sleep baby sleep One of my (Diana’s) biggest worries before taking of on a roadtrip in our camper: what if our daughter won’t sleep anym...
In this video we introduce you to Marnix and Martijn, two filmmakers who will be joining us on our upcoming roadtrip from Mexico to Costa Ri...
We have been in Playa del Carmen for the last two months and we have really come to love this city. It is 100% Mexican but with a lot of for...
It is almost time to welcome our second baby (a boy :-)), into the world. We are preparing, getting ready, physically but more than a...
Stuff to take (from Holland) While preparing for the roadtrip we would make from Mexico to Costa Rica overland in the winter of 2017, we rea...
Together with Diana and our recently born daughter we have been living the digital nomad lifestyle for almost five years and we are about to...
WE ARE BACK IN MEXICO Since a week we are back in Mexico:) We have been enjoying good times with friends and family in Holland for almost se...
We were in London for five days to celebrate Stevens birthday with a few close dutch friends living in the city!...
Mexico to Costa Rica (december 2016 to february 2017) – The idea Steven and I share a lot of dreams and try to incorporate them into our...
Over the last six months, Steven has been training very hard for his first serious triathlon, a 70.3 Ironman in Aix en Provence, France. Two...
We have been in Holland for almost two months now and we are having a great time! One of the great things of traveling is coming home (albei...
In january 2016 we spend a great, lovely time together as a family in Austria to celebrate the 40 years wedding celebration of Diana’s...
Steven and I share a lot of dreams and try to incorporate them into our daily lives as often as we can. Every year, before we start our 8 mo...
It has been almost three weeks since our little Isa was born and we have enjoyed every second of it! Both our parents have been here, Steven...
Hoi lieve vrienden van The Wide Open Road, ik ben Isa Mae, roepnaam Isa. Ik ben afgelopen vrijdag 6 November geboren in Playa del Carmen, Me...
We have the great opportunity to give form to the ideal way for us to receive a new life into this world. We decided to take a long maternit...
November 4th, 2015. Babe, it is a matter of days now until you will join us. We cannot wait to meet you.. You won’t be able to read wh...
We have moved to Playa del Carmen about two weeks ago and we are having a great time. Our house and our neighbourhood are the perfect mix of...
Unfortunately the bus had to stay in San Cristobal due to mechanical issues and therefor Steven had to cancel the roadtrip, but he met some ...
We are very thankful that around november 8th we are expecting a teeny tiny baby (with long legs probably;)) to join our adventure. Since we...
For the first time since the start of our Digital Nomad journey in 2011 we are living completely nomadic in Holland as well. With the help o...
Hoe kun je voor een onbepaalde tijd ‘betaald’ op reis? Door onderweg genoeg geld te verdienen om desnoods jarenlang te gaan. Dat is tege...
Yesterday we shot a picture of everything we own:) We were packing our bus in order to leave her in Mexico for a couple of months while we a...
After more than three years living like digital nomads we thought it would be nice to share with you how we are actually ‘paying’...
Saying goodbye to our newfound friends in Belize was hard but Guatemala definitely is worth it! We have been in the jungle for the past thre...
Today we travelled from Corozal, Belize to Bermudian Landing, a howler monkey sanctuary (around 100km). We are camping for free in front of ...
With almost the same pain in our hearts when we left Holland three years ago we now have left our beloved Mexico. The border crossing was ve...
A short video that shows how we setup our camp when we arrive on a new location. This video was shot in Chetumal at Yax-Ha Trailer park, a ...
Are you looking for a new lifestyle? Want to live like a digital nomad? Then this post is written for you! In our three years living like di...
Merry Christmas everybody!! Chase your dreams, follow your heart and make 2015 count!! Big hug from Steven, Diana and Nina from Tulum, Mexic...
Steven made a small video to inspire those looking for a different lifestyle to look further! The video is titled ‘Quit your job, star...
I (Steven) love coaching and mentoring starting companies or ‘startups’. Whether I can help with marketing and communication, ...
Today we are celebrating three years of our digital nomads lifestyle. We left Holland on december sixth in 2011 not knowing what this life ...
You probably have seen the picture on the homepage of us with our bus on the beach. This is probably the most expensive picture we took in y...
An hour south of the two ‘gringo’ cities Cancun and Playa del Carmen you’ll find a place that offers an entirely different...
Last May we spend a month in Thailand and we had a great time travelling this beautiful country. In a separate post we will share our advent...
After being on the road for over 2,5 years we felt it was time to spend the summer months at home with our friends and family in the Netherl...
What to wear in India for female travelers? If you are traveling to India soon and you wonder what to wear during your trip, this is the pos...
After our first week of working hard with The Yoga People and daily classes (2,5 hours!) of yoga we had our first day off. Time to rent a sc...
Whoooohooo! We are going to India! After a little more than two years in Central America it is time for a change of scenery and a new advent...
‘I want to go back to the beach’ is what Diana said last year in March after we had been living in San Cristobal de las Casas fo...
Last week Stevens father Gerard visited us in Mexico. He spend an entire week with us on beautiful Isla Holbox. Being curious by nature, he ...
Ever since Steven was six years old, he has been running. He was always the Forrest Gump of the family. One of his big dreams was to run a m...
We went swimming with whale sharks for free as part of the deal we have with the hostel where we are staying right now. In exchange we of co...
The Digital Nomad lifestyle sounds pretty appealing to a lot of people. And yes, living on the most beautiful places on earth and working wh...
A lot of people have asked us about how we are making money while we are travelling. And our answer always was: we don’t know yet, it ...
Merida is a city located in the Yucatan province of Mexico. It is a big city with a small colonial-style center and it gets very hot (37-38 ...
The last few months we have been trying to decide where we would go after our great time in San Cristobal de las Casas. Because we finally h...
Triathlon: Important part of our digital nomad lifestyle is to be fit, both mentally and physically. Training and participating in triathlon...
On May 11th, a dream will come true: training for a triathlon while traveling the world is one thing, participating in one is the next level...
For HaDeGo CEO and former-DSM colleague Francoise de Goeijen we developed a website for her engineering consultancy agency HaDeGo Engineerin...
The end of the 9-5 focus on productivity During our first fifteen months living like digital nomads one of the things that struck us is that...
One of our good friends, Petra Groenenboom, is a great sports physician that provides top notch medical care and guidance to (top) athletes ...
Triathlon: Important part of our digital nomad lifestyle is to be fit, both mentally and physically. Training and participating in triathlon...
During our MTB trip in november we have met a lot of extraordinary people. One of them is Mauricio Aguilar. Mauricio is the owner of a Tour ...
Triathlon: Important part of our digital nomad lifestyle is to be fit, both mentally and physically. Training and participating in triathlon...
During our travels, Steven regularly performs photography jobs for local clients. In these series we offer you a glimpse into typical Centra...
After exactly one week of training in the lagoon of Coyuca, Steven swam 5 km in the bay of Acapulco as part of the Guadalupano swimming mara...
For our good Dutch friend (and even better writer) Bas van de Haterd, we created a short animation video to support the launch of his well w...
Adrenaline Junkies: This part of our blog offers you our stories of adventure in Central and South America, whose countries are famous for ...
Last weekend, the first weekend of November, we went to Guatemala to renew our visa. A great country that we are going to visit for a longer...
Words cannot express how feel.. Therefor we made this video about the beautiful result of just one simple message on our blog. Mission Hogar...
Being a Digital Nomad sometimes means that you have to hustle. In this case we made this (fully SEO optimised) website for free for this bea...
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In this blog series Diana writes about her quest to become a triathlete. Since August 2012, she trains with her partner Steven for triathlon...
Driving past Tuxtla Gutierrez from our visit to the childrens’ home Hogar Infantil in Ocozocoautla, we passed a bridge that offered us...
Have you ever felt like a bird? Being able to fly off whenever you want? Not knowing where you’ll land, what you will eat, where you will ...
It is 9.00am on a saturday, 26th of May 2012, an hour before our workshop business modeling is scheduled to start when the doorbell rings at...
Have you ever wondered how we bought our 1972 VW t2 Westfalia in Mexico City? Well, in this post we share the story of how we did that and h...
The air is damp. It is a scorching hot and cloudy day at Hotel Baxar, Pie de la Cuesta, Mexico. Droplets of sweat start dripping off my nose...
After our mind changing trip to Oaxaca we almost immediately started a completely different adventure: Creating a company in 72 hours on Sta...
(nederlandse versie staat onderaan) Why would one write a blog about things we have experienced in March? I agree that it sounds weird. But ...
The butterflies in our tummies tell us that something special is going to happen. Since November 2011 we have been preparing a series of wor...
One learns a lot during a thrilling 72-hours bus ride with forty Mexican entrepreneurs to SXSW to present our newly founded companies. This ...
I (steven) found a couple of minutes to let you guys know how we are doing. We are in the bus and are almost at the american boarder and he ...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how important it is for digital nomads to free your mind from daily hassles so you can do your work. It ...
Today it has been exactly eight weeks since we exchanged our life in Holland for a life like digital nomads and it seemed about time to shar...
Imagine you are in a city and you hear those typical city noises: car horns, traffic and people talking. Now imagine that you are standing ...
Adrenaline Junkies: This part of our blog offers you our stories of adventure in Central and South America, whose countries are famous for ...
As a society, we have cocooned ourselves. Every day we are rushing from one goal or target to the next. And while working on one thing, we a...
Yesterday we had to travel from Caye Caulker (Belize) to Palenque (Mexico) to visit the Maya ruins. Because of the fact that there are a lot...
Earth continues to show us her most precious places if we know where to look. As long as they will be preserved on our overcrowded planet, w...
We were staying in Playa del Carmen (very american and pretty expensive) and learned our first valuable backpacking lesson: Never leave your...
‘Saying goodbye and saying hello are more related than one might think..’ This beautiful line was sent to us by Saskia (diana...
Mexico, the starting point of our journey, sits on the other side of the globe, about 9200 kilometers from Amsterdam. This feels like being ...
Or.. what is on your bucket list? We have just completed our bucket list and put it online for you to browse through and laugh about it (...
In order to explain what a digital nomad is I found this nice infographic that explains it perfectly (thnx for sharing @burgemeester!) I hop...
It is 1.00 AM on a monday evening and I can’t sleep. In only five weeks from now we will be on a plane to Mexico! Even though we can...
The clock is ticking. On december 5th we will get on a plane and leave holland for a longer period of time. A scary decision but our intuiti...
Today, on the beautiful morning of October 10th 2011, the final countdown has begun! We have doubled the excitement as I am also nominated b...