🧑‍🚀 Hi there 🐈

Welcome to my home page! This is a place where I share my thoughts, experiences, and adventures. But mostly, I play around.

This website has been my playground for decades. It started as pure HTML in 2002 or so. By 2007, I moved everything to the Joomla CMS for two decades. In 2026, I decided to migrate everything to Astro SSC for security and simplicy. No cookies, no tracking, no bloat. However, there are probably some unfinished things, and even more - artefacts from past decades...

Enjoy your stay 🚀

Journeys

Asia 2003

(7 posts)

7 months on the road. On the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Moscow via Mongolia to Beijing in January, being the first time in Asia. Heading south to escape the cold. Time travelling in Northern Laos, it feels like Stone age. Long rest and long party nights in Thailand. Suddenly in Japan...

Hiking in Austria 2008

(1 posts)

India 2009

(4 posts)

In February 2009 I was happy to escape the European winter for a trip to a country that is so much unlike anything else I have seen before - India! Slow traveling with a couple of friends, from Kerala via Karnataka towards Goa. Traveling India is something you'd either love or hate, according to an old travelers saying. For me, it was like flowing in the middle of the river of live, even though I wasn't sure I would enjoy traveling in company rather than traveling on my own beforehand.

Cycling Japan 2009

(10 posts)

On my first bicycle journey I spend almost 4 months in Japan and cycled more than 2000 fantastic miles up and down in the Land of the Rising Sun. First I went to Mnt. Fuji with Robert from Germany, later on my own into the Japanese Alps. There I met an Japanese bicycle traveler and learned a lot from him. I went on a pilgrimage on Shikoku. My Japanese really improved a lot, far away from the tourist track. Every day of these 4 months I've had such warm and welcome feeling in this marvelous country.

Tanzania 2010

(6 posts)

One month in Africa, in the Land of Serengeti and Kilimanjaro. One month on tour by sailing boat, bus and jeep. Great sceneries, fascinating wild life and weird contrasts! A night in a safari lodge is about same as the monthly income of a local employee.

Asia Pacific 2010 - 2011

(25 posts)

Golden and brown leaves falling back home. Migratory birds are leaving. Time to take off for me too. The initial plan was to cycle from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur, yet it went all different. And good. 6 months on the road, meeting great people, dwelling in great places, sharing great experiences.

Pan America 2011 - 2012

(23 posts)

American writers like Kerouac and Miller influenced me a lot when I was in my Twenties. And I heard lots about the West Coast from American travellers, recommending great national parks and the Route 101 that is sort of famous thing to do for cyclists. So I decided to postpone other planned adventures and flew to Vancouver BC, equipped with my good old pushbike, a tent and a (warm!) sleeping bag.

Journey to the East 2013

(21 posts)

Marco Polos fabulous journey to the East left wild dreams in my mind since I was reading it as a child. Herrmann Hesses "Journey to the East" did so some years later, as well a a picture book about the Himalayan - the roof of the world. And finally after a long winter the snow melts. Now Kathrin and I are ready to venture out to a long bike journey - to hopefully meet a lot of friendly people and face incredible landscapes and colorful cities from here to the Himalayan.

A Andalucia con VW camper van 2014

(2 posts)

Kathrin and I just moved into our new home in Appenzell, Switzerland. There is still more than a month time before Kathrin starts her new job. Travel companion Urs comes up with the idea to cruise down to Andalusia, Spain with his VW camper van. We would go an pick up spring down there. Lots of great scenic climbing spots on the way plus the outlook of camping - what else can one wish?

Hiking in Norway 2018

(2 posts)

A 9-day hiking trip with tent and cocking equipment in Norway and some subsequent rest days. The articles are in German language (for I kept my travel notes in German). We've been blessed with exceptionally good weather conditions for the hiking. However, apparently this is part of an extented drought period that hit Scandinavia for the past months. So please, let it rain again!

Journey to the Promised Land 2022

(10 posts)

After a few years of teaching, my feet got itchy again. So I packed a tent, a guitar and a few more things on the bike and headed for the Promised Land. I was very curious about all the countries and cultures on the way, and have long wished to spend some time in Israel.

Roof of the World Cycling 2025

(9 posts)

18 years after I met Georg in India - the owner and creator of those Gunsha Bikes I have been riding since - he called me and asked if I wanted to join him cycling some of the worlds highest mountain passes with him in Ladakh. I felt flattered, I couldn't resist.