A very strange time has come. Whenever a change approaches, i.e. when we either travel from home to Shujaa or vice versa, as it…
Category: Feelings
Friends or just acquaintances?
Many people envy us, our journey and our freedom. But that also has its price. Friends, for example, are always and recently increasingly a…
About the speed or slowness of travel
We have been on our world tour since 2015. Sometimes only temporarily, sometimes for a very long time. We have certainly learned a lot…
In the footsteps of Dian Fossey: Our visit to the mountain gorillas
A long-desired dream comes true. Oliver received the Gorilla Tracking as a Christmas present the year before last. It was clear to both of…
Touching encounter with Nana – the elephant grand mama of the Thula-Thula Game Reserve
Friends recommended reading the famous book by Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer, as an African reading. Lawrence, a gifted animal rights activist, buying a…
Two sides inside me: The “fear” and the “adventure”
Today we are on a quad trip of a very special kind. We drive for 3.5 hours over 80 km along a dry river…
Wistfulness
Our first continent is coming to an end. After more than a year with Shujaa, where we drove across South America, we will be…
Good journey, René!
We have just received the tragic news of the death of René Larraguibel, one of our very few travel friends, whom we have on…