Welcome to our travel blog!

We are Vany and Chris. What binds us is a longing for the world. We are always in search of new places that expand our horizons and enrich our view of the world. Our first trip together took us to Thailand and Myanmar in 2012. Since then, we have traveled many countries together, explored places, and met people. Our style of traveling has changed over time, but not our intention.

Often we traveled only with backpacks, having booked the first hotel, the rest was improvised. We covered many kilometers in Iranian night buses, marched with our backpacks along the Northern Irish coast, slept in our tent in frosty temperatures in the middle of nowhere in Moldova, and surfed on a Kuwaiti couch. Because we wanted more of these unique experiences, we planned a world trip for 2020. We aimed to hitchhike our way eastward to Thailand. Apartment and job were terminated, the car sold, the backpacks packed, and the anticipation high. Start date was April 1, the day the world closed all borders to contain the spread of the Corona virus. Read more about our failed world trip here.

During the pandemic, we discovered a new form of traveling. For some time, we had been fascinated by the freedom and flexibility of overlanding. So, we fulfilled another dream and bought an off-road vehicle with a roof tent from our world trip money. And we love it! Especially wild camping and driving on rough tracks. That’s why last year we traded our faithful Honda CR-V for a Toyota Hilux, for even greater off-road experiences. Find out more about our car here.

Since 2022, we have been traveling as a trio with our new-born son. Since then, more thorough planning has been necessary. But traveling with the little one also opens up entirely new encounters for us. People approach us differently, interact with the child. At the same time, we observe how our little globetrotter discovers everything around him and is fascinated by things that we long ago took for granted.