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Travel thoughts
In this category we share our thoughts, reflections and the moments that moved us on the journey.
Maybe you'll find a thought that inspires your own adventure.


Being sick in the van - The quiet side of vanlife
Vanlife sounds like sunsets, wide beaches, and freedom on four wheels.But sometimes another moment slips in: the body stops, strength collapses – and life in the motorhome becomes quiet. I experienced this in Spain. An unexpected clinic, a taxi instead of the motorhome, a night full of questions. For two weeks I could barely do anything, and when we continued driving, the exhaustion came back – this time in France. Emergency room, medication, keep rolling. It was a different
Özlem
Nov 193 min read


What the Sun Does to the Soul
In the morning, when light spills through the van windows, the air smells of salt and coffee. Yasuo stretches, I open the door — and everything turns to gold. A moment that asks for nothing. Just to be. Here, on the Costa de la Luz, the sun feels different. Not louder, not brighter — but closer. It has a way of moving through the skin, into what we call the soul. And there, it starts to quietly dissolve the things we didn’t even know we were holding. I feel my body slowing do
Özlem
Nov 12 min read


Postcards to Myself
Thoughts between the roads Sometimes I don’t write texts, but little postcards. To myself. To the one I was. To the one I’m still becoming. From places where I stop – for a breath, a thought, a piece of presence. They aren’t messages, not really. More like traces. Moments that insist on being written down because they need to go somewhere – not to an address, but into awareness. Postcard from the road without a destination There are paths that don’t lead anywhere — they just
Özlem
Oct 212 min read
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