
The donkeys of La Fortuna
The donkeys of La Fortuna, of which nobody seems to know where they come from, who they belong to or whether they belong to anyone at all. There are rumors that they were used for a film shoot and then released and that an elderly woman is now looking after them. But that’s just a

Baja Magica
Quickly I scrambled back onto the board, sat down this time to avoid losing my balance again, and started paddling hard to get out of the whale’s path. I felt like an ant drifting around on a matchstick in the ocean.

Tijuana - La Paz
After spending a few days in Tijuana for Dia de los Muertos, we’re moving on to the south of Baja California. After Vancouver, San Francisco and Tijuana, we have seen the big city life and are looking forward to a warm, cozy place somewhere by the sea where we can swim. No sooner said than

Zurich - Rocky Mountains
We actually wanted to start a blog a while ago, but with all the traveling, painting, photography, and processing of impressions, we never really found the time. However, when we spent two weeks in the Rocky Mountains helping a family build a log cabin, we finally found the time to sit down and get started.

Canada, the BIG country
Canada is bigger. Bigger than most other countries (in fact, all except Russia). But in Canada also many things are bigger than in other countries. At least that’s what we noticed in the 5 months we spent in the country. Here are some of those things.

Down the Yukon River on a Canoe
Intro Canada. One of those countries, if not the country, known for its wilderness. Forests as far as the eye can see, empty valleys, unclimbed mountain peaks, pristine coastlines, square kilometers of untouched nature. Like many before us, we were drawn to Canada for these very reasons. As “trip preparation,” we watched a documentary on

The Yukon
The territory in the northwest of Canada captivated us. We spent more than half of our time in Canada in the vastness of the Yukon. The longer we were there, the more we learned about this sparsely populated region and grew to appreciate it. The Yukon is the smallest of the three territories in Canada