It has been a month since I returned to the Netherlands. Our last biking adventures happened in Chiapas, a southern state in Mexico. We traveled by bus from the coast of Oaxaca, the beach Zipolite, to San Cristóbal de las…

In this blog I‘ll tell a detailed story about a personal journey with magic mushrooms, specifically the species Psilocybe Caerulescens, better known as the “derrumbes” or “landslide” mushroom. These mushrooms are traditionally seen in Mexico’s Aztec culture as sacred and…

I cycled solo through Alaska and Canada in the winter, through the United States in the spring and arrived in Baja California in Mexico at the end of June. I traveled by boat and bus to Mexico City to pick…

It was quite difficult for me to step out of my everyday life in Rotterdam seven months ago, to start another life for almost a year. A life on a bike. My choice was to embrace a challenging journey to…

There was great applause. The Dutch coach and theaterperformer Bertold Gunster performed with his theatershow Rethink. It was a very well organized event and the whole room was in ecstacy. I stood backstage and the noise of the people made…

A journey from -40°C at the start in the Alaskan wilderness, now is heading to +40°C in Mexico. In six months I’ve ended up deep in the desert of Baja California. It is no longer icy and cold, but dry…

The Big Sur adventure was the beginning of the last chapter of the journey through the state of California in the United States. The coast around Los Angeles and San Diego is very populated and here I would have less…