Video log: How to decide to travel the world

Many people who we have met along the road – while traveling and staying put in one place – were wondering how we decided to travel the world. This question accompanying us for countless years has inspired me to speak up, and share with you the secret of deciding to travel the world. Furthermore, I am sharing our personal story of how we both – Augustas and me – decided to...[read more]

Video log: Winter on the road

Winter is in full bloom here with snow covering every millimeter of Kedainiai, Lithuania. I love snow, and managed to get a moment for myself to truly enjoy this white magic. In doing so, I wondered what cold weather extremes we experienced during our 6 year hitchhiking journey. Our border crossing from Argentina to Chile and our time in the Atacama Desert are definitely among them. Where there any...[read more]

Video log: Means of transport

While Vikas was enjoying to explore the local train station here in Kedainiai, Lithuania, and watch with fascination at the cargo trains stationed and passing, I decided to talk about Means of Transport during our 6 year hitchhiking journey. To be honest, snipping out of the blue into a topic that is laying years behind made me stumble upon the fact that I couldn’t remember everything in the...[read more]

Follow The Road Video Log

Our hitchhiking journey finished at the end of 2011, when we settled for a longer while in Germany. We lived 2 years near the beautiful Saxonian Switzerland, grew in number to three in our family, and set off for a winter in Spain in 2013. Now we are back on the Northern side, spending a year in the beautiful town of Kedainiai, in the Kaunas district of Lithuania. Hitchhiking, yes, finished three...[read more]

Reaching out

Dear Friends – near and far, known and unknown, we love having you follow our site. We appreciate knowing that out there in the world more than 1.700 people are happy about what we have done, about our journey, about our choice to live our dreams. Although we are quiet for a long time, we still dream big and continue to follow our hearts. Right now we are the happy parents of our nearly one year...[read more]

Funding Your Travels

No matter how you plan your backpacking adventure up to every last detail, certain mishaps and setbacks will always be there to cut short your otherwise lovely journey. Whether these situations result in lost luggage or missing plane tickets, you must always come up with a backup plan and anticipate every possible occurrence. While the worst case scenario is most likely running out of cash in the middle...[read more]

Neighbour dream team

Gratitude Gratitude Back in the capital of Germany, we are overwhelmed by a feeling of gratitude for all the help and support we have received from our friends during our strenuous time in Berlin. From day one of our arrival we moved eight times within five different districts. It was our friends who bedded, fed, and unconditionally supported us in our endeavor to settle. They even left their homes...[read more]

A New Home

Lucky and Happy surrounded by Lucky Bay's magic energy April 2011. We love Australia. We love it’s people, it’s weather, it’s pace, it’s mentality, it’s places, it’s energy. We love how we feel here. We want to stay. We dream of settling in Australia. Visa regulations turn the wheel The Visa regulations, though, let us decide otherwise. Tired of thoughts of...[read more]

David’s Junky Warehouse

When Fairy Lisa first proposed to ask her friend Dave to host us in his warehouse, we imagined a huge warehouse full of tools and machinery, and us amidst the technology camping out. Upon staying with Lisa we find out that Dave turned an old Volkswagen service station into his home. It is meant to be a treasure for junk collectors, filled up to the top with thousands of LPs, antiques, and things that...[read more]

Fairy Lisa from Adelaide

The state of mind matters most in life The journey to Adelaide is marvelous. Alistar brings us to Auburn town (20 km south of Clare), where shadow, cookies, and bananas keep us happy in the midday heat. Soon we are off to Gawler (50 km north of Adelaide), right opposite a shopping mall. Huge traffic and oven baking temperatures make it tricky to catch a right, until a former hitchhiker brings us 2...[read more]