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...
22 May, 2022
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.
Travel leg 2022: San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
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, ...
02 May, 2022
Learn while we travel: meet worldschooling!
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...
01 March, 2022
Travel leg 2021/2022: Tulum, Mexico
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...
15 January, 2022
Video: October 2021 | On the road again
We are back on the road! Mexico it is! For how long? We don’t know! Start: Playa del Carmen and Isla Holbox...
07 November, 2021
Raising bilingual kids (year 6): where did their Spanish go?
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(!...
02 July, 2021
Isa turning five in november 2020: is the adventure over?
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...
21 September, 2020
Video: May 2020 | Last month Costa rica | Catching three flights home
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 ...
28 June, 2020
Family travel hacks for a fun 4-day journey home
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...
10 June, 2020
Video: April 2020 | Corona in Costa Rica | The Wide Open Road
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...
30 May, 2020
Rescue mission: our VW t2 will ship to Holland (wait, what?!)
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...
07 May, 2020
Digital nomad kids in quarantine
On March 13, 2020 Costa Rica closed its international borders for tourists arriving to the country. Beaches closed, schools closed and peopl...
25 April, 2020
Video: March 2020 | Quarantine in Costa Rica
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...
30 March, 2020
Raising bilingual children (year 4): how did it go so far
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...
27 March, 2020
Video: February 2020 | Back to reality
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...
27 February, 2020
Video: January 2020 | Holiday in Mexico
In our continuing search for sunshine, friendship and adventure we travelled through Mexico. From Pie de la Cuesta, Acapulco to Isla Holbox....
23 January, 2020
Video: December 2019 | Holidays in Mexico
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...
03 January, 2020
Video: November 2019 | Settling in Puerto Viejo
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 ...
09 December, 2019
Landing in a new place: how do you do that?
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...
25 October, 2019
Video: October 2019 | Travelling to Costa Rica
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...
24 October, 2019
Goodbye summer, hello travel!
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...
15 September, 2019
Experiment: camping out of a Volkswagen t2 with 2 kids
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...
24 July, 2019
You ain’t Dutch if you can’t ride a bike!
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...
24 June, 2019
Traveling back to Holland
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...
14 May, 2019
Travel leg 2018/2019: from Puerto Santiago(Spain) to Puerto Viejo(Costa Rica)
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...
05 May, 2019
Worldschooling at kindergarten in Playa Chiquita
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...
22 April, 2019
Puerto Viejo: wilderness, wildlife and work
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...
02 April, 2019
Laptops, humidity and air conditioning: a fogging problem!
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 ...
19 March, 2019
Picking up our daughter from her school in the jungle
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...
12 March, 2019
Pura Vida in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
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...
26 February, 2019
Saying goodby to La Rojita, the red VW van
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...
24 January, 2019
Life in a mobile home
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...
16 January, 2019
How to raise a bilingual child in a monolingual household
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...
16 January, 2019
Poem: Song of the open road (inspired our website name;)
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...
06 January, 2019
Explored: beautiful Tenerife
As part of our exploration trips, we visited Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands belonging to Spain, off the Moroccan coast. In these explor...
16 December, 2018
What to pack for a 4 month trip to Costa Rica as a digital nomad family?
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...
15 December, 2018
A mobile home in Holland
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...
10 August, 2018
Isa’s summer at the farm
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 ...
12 July, 2018
Welcome to the world Vesper Adrian!
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...
18 November, 2017
Back in Mexico and our family is growing
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...
16 September, 2017
Our documentary is finished!
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...
30 August, 2017
Sailing in Greece – The Wide Open Sea
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...
17 July, 2017
Looking back: epic Central American roadtrip in old VW with a baby
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...
27 May, 2017
Traveling Costa Rica with Isa’s grandparents
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...
16 February, 2017
Filmmaking leg 6: crossing into Costa Rica and returning home (video)
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...
02 February, 2017
Visiting Inan Itah community at Ometepe Island, Nicaragua
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...
01 February, 2017
Filmmaking leg 5: extraordinary way of life up close (video)
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...
27 January, 2017
Filmmaking leg 4: crossing Honduras to Ometepe, Nicaragua (video)
Watch us cross borders: El Salvador to Honduras and Honduras into Nicaragua. A lot of paperwork, copying and waiting. And just when you thin...
18 January, 2017
Filmmaking leg 3: crossing into El Salvador
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...
11 January, 2017
Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador in the VW van
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...
06 January, 2017
Filmmaking leg 2: visiting a community at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala
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 ...
20 December, 2016
Filmmaking leg 1: San Cristobal, Mexico to Lake Atitlán, Guatemala (video)
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...
05 December, 2016
Preparing the vans for roadtripping and filmmaking (video)
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...
28 November, 2016
Sleep baby sleep in the van
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...
25 November, 2016
Arrival of the filmmakers and test driving the vans! (video)
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...
23 November, 2016
Two months in Playa del Carmen: our top 6
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...
01 November, 2016
Going offline for 8 weeks for our second maternity and paternity leave!
It is almost time to welcome our second baby (a boy :-)), into the world. We are preparing, getting ready, physically but more than a...
24 October, 2016
Mexico to Costa Rica in a camper with a baby: what to take?
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...
15 October, 2016
We are going to make a documentary and it’s called: Behind The Horizon
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...
26 September, 2016
We are back in Mexico for two months
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...
07 September, 2016
London baby!!
We were in London for five days to celebrate Stevens birthday with a few close dutch friends living in the city!...
29 July, 2016
The 2016 idea: roadtripping and filmmaking
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...
15 May, 2016
Tough triathlon challlenges for Steven in France
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...
13 May, 2016
Teaching and training in Holland
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...
18 March, 2016
Celebrating 40 years of marriage
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...
22 January, 2016
Lifestyle design poster (january 2016)
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...
16 January, 2016
Great time with our family and Isa Mae
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...
24 November, 2015
Welcome to the world little Isa Mae
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...
13 November, 2015
We are offline 6 weeks for our maternity and paternity leave
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...
04 November, 2015
Message to our unborn babe: this is your first diary
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...
04 November, 2015
Our first weeks in Playa del Carmen: pregnant and happy
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...
12 October, 2015
We have moved to Playa del Carmen (without bus)
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 ...
30 September, 2015
Big news: we had to buy an extra (small) suitcase
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...
11 August, 2015
Living and working nomadic in Holland
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...
10 June, 2015
Hoe word je digitale nomade? (Dutch)
Hoe kun je voor een onbepaalde tijd ‘betaald’ op reis? Door onderweg genoeg geld te verdienen om desnoods jarenlang te gaan. Dat is tege...
16 May, 2015
Everything we own (minimalism)
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...
20 April, 2015
‘Keeping our engine rolling’ or ‘How do we pay for our digital nomad lifestyle?’
After more than three years living like digital nomads we thought it would be nice to share with you how we are actually ‘paying’...
21 March, 2015
We are in Guatemala!
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...
20 February, 2015
Typical Digital Nomad day
Today we travelled from Corozal, Belize to Bermudian Landing, a howler monkey sanctuary (around 100km). We are camping for free in front of ...
01 February, 2015
We are in Belize
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...
30 January, 2015
Setting up camp (video)
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 ...
18 January, 2015
Living the digital nomad lifestyle: getting out of your comfort zone
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...
27 December, 2014
Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas everybody!! Chase your dreams, follow your heart and make 2015 count!! Big hug from Steven, Diana and Nina from Tulum, Mexic...
25 December, 2014
Quit your job, start your life (video)
Steven made a small video to inspire those looking for a different lifestyle to look further! The video is titled ‘Quit your job, star...
12 December, 2014
Three weeks of Startup Weekends in Mexico
I (Steven) love coaching and mentoring starting companies or ‘startups’. Whether I can help with marketing and communication, ...
08 December, 2014
Three years living as digital nomads, ten lessons for life
Today we are celebrating three years of our digital nomads lifestyle. We left Holland on december sixth in 2011 not knowing what this life ...
06 December, 2014
Finding a VW mechanic in Yucatan
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...
04 November, 2014
Beaches, bikes and a bus in Tulum!
An hour south of the two ‘gringo’ cities Cancun and Playa del Carmen you’ll find a place that offers an entirely different...
04 November, 2014
5 things airports can learn from Bangkok International Airport
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...
08 August, 2014
Spending our summer at home
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...
24 July, 2014
Tips for female travelers in India, What to wear
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...
13 April, 2014
Scootering in India is awesome!!
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...
14 March, 2014
We are going to Goa, India!!
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...
14 February, 2014
Top 10 things to do on beautiful Isla Holbox
‘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...
14 February, 2014
‘About genes, what is normal and adapting to survive’ a tale by Stevens father Gerard
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 ...
30 October, 2013
Steven ran his (and the) first marathon on Isla Holbox!
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...
24 September, 2013
Swimming with Whale Sharks on Isla Holbox
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...
30 August, 2013
Challenges for the remote worker or Digital Nomad (and how to deal with them)
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...
20 July, 2013
6 simple steps to make money while you are traveling
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 ...
11 July, 2013
Triathlon training and city-camping: Merida, Mexico
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 ...
27 April, 2013
Shipping (y)our car to Isla Holbox
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...
11 April, 2013
Triathlon training: Campeche, Mexico
Triathlon: Important part of our digital nomad lifestyle is to be fit, both mentally and physically. Training and participating in triathlon...
09 April, 2013
We have picked our first 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...
31 March, 2013
New website for HaDeGo Engineering B.V.
For HaDeGo CEO and former-DSM colleague Francoise de Goeijen we developed a website for her engineering consultancy agency HaDeGo Engineerin...
21 March, 2013
Introducing the end of 9-5: Working Wonderfully
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...
24 February, 2013
Meet one of the best sports physicians in the Netherlands and her new website!
One of our good friends, Petra Groenenboom, is a great sports physician that provides top notch medical care and guidance to (top) athletes ...
15 February, 2013
Steven won his first (small) Aquathlon
Triathlon: Important part of our digital nomad lifestyle is to be fit, both mentally and physically. Training and participating in triathlon...
31 January, 2013
The best MTB tours in San Cristobal de las Casas deserve the best website!
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 ...
22 January, 2013
Triathlon training: San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico
Triathlon: Important part of our digital nomad lifestyle is to be fit, both mentally and physically. Training and participating in triathlon...
06 January, 2013
Photography: Padle Surfing on the Lagoon of Coyuca, Mexico
During our travels, Steven regularly performs photography jobs for local clients. In these series we offer you a glimpse into typical Centra...
15 December, 2012
Triathlon: Swimming 5k in Acapulco Bay
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...
09 December, 2012
(R)evolution of work (video)
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...
30 November, 2012
Adrenaline Junkies: Bike, hike and kayak 400km through the Mexican jungle during Salva Lacandona
Adrenaline Junkies: This part of our blog offers you our stories of adventure in Central and South America, whose countries are famous for ...
21 November, 2012
Photography: beautiful Antigua, Guatemala
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...
02 November, 2012
Mission Hogar Infantil: accomplished! (video)
Words cannot express how feel.. Therefor we made this video about the beautiful result of just one simple message on our blog. Mission Hogar...
14 October, 2012
New web page for camping in San Cristobal de las Casas
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...
20 September, 2012
We need your help for Hogar Infantil (a Children’s place) in Ocozocoautla
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19 September, 2012
Triathlon training: learning to swim in open water
In this blog series Diana writes about her quest to become a triathlete. Since August 2012, she trains with her partner Steven for triathlon...
08 September, 2012
Wonders of Nature: Cañon del Sumidero, Mexico
Driving past Tuxtla Gutierrez from our visit to the childrens’ home Hogar Infantil in Ocozocoautla, we passed a bridge that offered us...
06 September, 2012
Our journey south has begun
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 ...
31 August, 2012
Workshop Business Modeling at Sustentables Innovation Center
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...
10 June, 2012
Buying our 1972 VW t2 Westfalia camper in Mexico
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...
27 May, 2012
Our first time teaching an English class at Hotel Baxar
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...
21 May, 2012
Extremes in entrepreneurship (part 2)
After our mind changing trip to Oaxaca we almost immediately started a completely different adventure: Creating a company in 72 hours on Sta...
09 May, 2012
Extremes in entrepreneurship (Part 1)
(nederlandse versie staat onderaan) Why would one write a blog about things we have experienced in March? I agree that it sounds weird. But ...
09 May, 2012
Our first workshops at The Institute in Veracruz
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...
03 April, 2012
Stevens personal learnings from Startupbus 2012
One learns a lot during a thrilling 72-hours bus ride with forty Mexican entrepreneurs to SXSW to present our newly founded companies. This ...
18 March, 2012
Startupbus?? Startup Rollercoaster
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 ...
08 March, 2012
Working abroad part 2: Internet Junkies
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 ...
20 February, 2012
Working abroad (part 1)
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...
30 January, 2012
Mexico City
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 ...
20 January, 2012
Adrenaline Junkies: Climbing Volcano “La Malinche” (4,420m)
Adrenaline Junkies: This part of our blog offers you our stories of adventure in Central and South America, whose countries are famous for ...
02 January, 2012
It is not about the miles..
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...
28 December, 2011
Quick update: We have found the guy who took our bags!
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...
19 December, 2011
Wonders of Nature: Diving the Great Blue Hole, Belice
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...
15 December, 2011
Backpacking lesson 1: Never, ever leave your luggage unattended..
We were staying in Playa del Carmen (very american and pretty expensive) and learned our first valuable backpacking lesson: Never leave your...
14 December, 2011
Saying goodbye and saying hello!
‘Saying goodbye and saying hello are more related than one might think..’ This beautiful line was sent to us by Saskia (diana...
10 December, 2011
Away but close
Mexico, the starting point of our journey, sits on the other side of the globe, about 9200 kilometers from Amsterdam. This feels like being ...
28 November, 2011
What do you want to do before you die?
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 (...
20 November, 2011
What exactly is a Digital Nomad?
In order to explain what a digital nomad is I found this nice infographic that explains it perfectly (thnx for sharing @burgemeester!) I hop...
10 November, 2011
Letting go…
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&#...
31 October, 2011
Getting rid of stuff feels great!
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...
19 October, 2011
Eight weeks and counting down the days… #wereldveroveraar
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...
10 October, 2011