My adventures

During my visit to the TBEX travel bloggers conference in Stockholm, Sweden, my girlfriend (and fellow travel blogger) Claire and I stayed at my friend Magnus’ place. His house is pretty high-tech, with code locks on a lot of the doors. He gave us the code for the outside door but we forgot to exchange one not-so-small…

While arranging my Trans Siberian Train ticket with a Dutch agency, I was told most people take breaks from the epic train journey in two places: Ulaanbataar in Mongolia and Irkutsk in Russia. A friend had told me that I should definitely visit Olkhon Island, an island in the middle of the magnificent Lake Baikal and…

We Europeans are spoiled. You only know you’ve crossed the border by train or car when the signage and landscape changes. If you’re lucky they will check your passport and give you a nod and a smile. South America holds other rules, especially the north part of it. Crossing from Venezuela to Guyana by bus is…

What do you do when you miss your flight from Boston to Los Angeles? You can: A. book another flight, B. change your travel itinerary or C. rent a car the next morning and decide to do it over land. In three days. You can guess which option Josh and I chose during our Pole 2 Pole 4…

All hope was lost, and I had to make the excruciating decision who to eat first: the Belgian or the Mongolian guy. The Dogs from Hell were guarding the only entrance leading to the plains which stretched as far as the eyes could see. Never knew I would be stuck in a tent in the Mongolian desert with barely…

Karaoke bars are intriguing. Drunk tourists get dragged into them, locals visit them after a long night of drinking and dodgy businessmen use them for their shady business. I’ve visited a couple of bars in Germany, Cambodia, South Korea and China. All of them have separate stories but today I will tell you the funniest…

It’s not every day that you decide to walk 222 km from Seattle to Vancouver without any preparation. Then again, it can be an easy ‘f*** it’ decision when you have been on the road for a while with that mindset. I wanted to push my personal limits and simply see if I would make it. The…

In 2011, Josh Cahill and myself embarked on an adventure that would change our lives forever. In 8 months we would travel from North Pole (Alaska) to Antarctica, raising money and awareness for green search engine Ecosia and the World Wildlife Foundation along the way. Pole2Pole4Charity’s mission was to share knowledge and inspire people to think about what…

Have you ever seen Quentin Tarantino’s movie “Death Proof”? If you haven’t, an important part of the movie is when the main character, a stuntman, invites a prostitute into his ‘60s American sports car. She gets in, and he starts driving really fast, eventually crashing. The thing is, he is wearing a stunt-man seat belt,…