On my knees…
It’s been well over a year since my beautiful, cold, challenging, heavy, sunny, rough, wonderful bikepacking tour in Spain and …
Rock, mud and pigs
My previous blog ended with my encounter with the intriguing José. The retired director who chose to live simply and …
Bleak and windy Andalusia
That bikepacking is quite different from biketouring is a fact I’d gotten a taste of during the summer. My motivation …
Less kilos, more mud
Seated in a comfortable lawn chair, I catch the last yellow rays of sunlight at the end of a hot …
MESSLIFE, LOVE AND MUNCHING MILES
‘Mwaaahooohaaaaaaaaa…’ Yawns… Stretches out… Is it here? Has spring arrived? Green surrounds me, sunshine warms my face and a few …
A year in the life of…
I’m writing you from a warm apartment in Tilburg (Holland). I’m ‘lucky’ cause I found a comfortable place to stay …
A rocky road
PLUM VILLAGE A buddhist retreat had been on my wish- and to do list for quite a while. And here …
ZEN – purpose – and the art of bike touring
Three weeks ago I got on my bicycle in the morning heading north. I was gonna ride across the French …
La vida en España
Saturday night, two weeks ago, I got up at 2 a.m. in Utrecht and at 2:30 sharp I got the …
Getting back in the saddle
Between (re)organising all the travel and cycling gear I’ve collected over the years in my mothers attic, packing my panniers …
A long climb
THE STATE OF ME It’s been three months since I told you ‘how I burned out riding a bicycle‘. And …
PEDAL
The world premiere of PEDAL was in Canada , October 2017, the Dutch premiere was last night in Heerlen. So …
HOW TO BURN-OUT RIDING A BICYCLE
As I’ve told you in my previous blog, my arrival back in the Netherlands (due to a broken collarbone) didn’t …
Dubai Travelers Festival – A world apart
(this post was writen on december 18, 2017) When I received an email four weeks ago with the subject ‘Dubai …
PEDAL and the Banff Mountain Film Festival
After three ‘turbulent’ flights I arrived in Calgary in (two) pieces. Stan, who follows my blog, picked me up from …
To become a real cyclist
It feels like I’m cycling in Central Asia. The landscape is wide and wavy with brown and green tones and …
Céad Míle Fáilte
I arrive in Ireland by ferry in the late afternoon. My only plan for the day is to get away …
As if I never left
It has only been two weeks since I got on my new bicycle in Tilburg to head south. First into …
I came, saw.. and took off again..
2 months in the Netherlands after 13 months living as a nomad. What’s that like? First of all, it’s great …
Looking back now….
It’s been four weeks now since I landed in the Netherlands. Yesterday I did my first presentation about the ride …
Filming in Costa Rica and why I flew home
On the sofa, in the living room of my mum’s house in Tilburg, with the Tour the France on TV …
The infamous Northern Triangle and a visit of a TV crew
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras. Countries that would let many father- and mother heart shake with anxiety at the thought of …
The infamous Northern Triangle and a visit of a TV crew Lees verder..
On rocky roads and how to warm a nomadic heart
BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP.. My phone wakes me up. Since I arrived in the south I get up before sunrise every morning. I …
On rocky roads and how to warm a nomadic heart Lees verder..
Southern warmth
In my last blog I wrote about my ‘speed-course: tourist’. In the recent weeks I’ve been able to enjoy the …
SPEED COURSE: TOURIST
If you turn your holiday into your daily life, it’s no longer a holiday. Twelve years ago I got on …
The belt
It’s hot! It’s hot! It feels as if a belt is strapped around my head. Another few gulps of water. …
A brief visit to the north
‘Before I tell you my story, I want to take you with me on one particular part of my travels. …
Baja California
I bounce around on my bike on a dirt road with washboard relief, up and down, left and right. My …
ME ENCANTA LOS MARIACHIS
Not a sign in sight to point me the way to the border. I decide to ask a pedestrian; ‘How …
COMING HOME IN THE DESERT
*PANG KLANG YEEHAAAAA* in other words: I’M BACK! Recharged, rested, motivated, happy! Wild awake! Two weeks of non-stop camping, vast …
Code Red in the Sierra Nevada
With sunglasses on my nose, a tanktop on and a clear blue sky above me I’m looking out over the …
2017 DESTINATION UNKNOWN
2016 In 2016 I took a turn. An unsigned turn without a street name, an unpaved road not to be …
Dripping south
I have to admit that over the last few months ‘crossing the United States‘ started to seem more like a …
6 months on the road
‘You haven’t been gone that long yet..‘ my brother said to me on the phone this morning, as we casually …
SHOCKED AND INSPIRED AND CROSSING THE BORDER
It’s 4 p.m. when I arrive at the (closed) campground in Yahk. Yahk, as I was told, is a village …
Back on the bike.. into the snow!
9 days, that’s how long it took before I felt good enough to get back on the bike. 9 days …
…and then it all collapsed
My latest blog I wrote on October 9th. The next day I was going to start at the Icefiedls Parkway. …
The taste of canada
A trip is like a dish, a combination of ingredients. Sometimes it’s like a three course menu; a memorable starter …
My ALASKA Alaska in video
This whole trip started with wanting to see and experience Alaska. Strongly inspired by ‘Into the Wild’, where Chris McCandless …
Getting used to wilderness
Right at the moment when I open my laptop to get started on my new blogpost the emergency alarm rings. …
It’s a fine line…
..or ‘SAYING GOODBYE TO ALASKA’ About 50 meters before the border was a nice viewing point. I just noticed a …
An unexpected northbound turn
It’s me! As I got out of the shower and looked in the mirror I saw it, like I do …
Getting to know Alaska
Getting ready to write my blog, sitting at my laptop at the Denali National Park entrance, all I can think …
The Last Frontier
A-LAS-KA! ALASKAAAAAAAA!!! Finally I’m here! Finally. I’m in that one place that was on the top of my wish list …
*NEWS* WE LOVE CYCLING PROMO!
Last april 6th, exactly 1 year after I rode my bicycle intro Germany at the start of my Europe-Asia trip, …
Peaceful, spacious and rugged
Hafnarfjörður! ‘Aah! Hafnarfjörður!!’ Exactly, that place where I got on my bicycle 4 weeks ago, butterflies tickling my stumac. That’s …
The Iceland Experience
It’s been 16 days now since I started my ‘big trip’. At this moment there’s 988km on the speedometer of …
From leaving to having left
Hafnarfjörður! What? Hafnarfjörður … that’s Icelandic for “harbor fjord” and Iceland’s third largest city with 27,000 inhabitants! From behind my …