4th train ride (Reno to San Fran)

Summer of love in San Francisco. Bustour through city incl golden gate bridge, walk around Haight-Ashbury, bars, clubs, mangafestival in Japantown, nice food and hanging out in mission dolores park -Read more
Roadtrip from SF to Portland

What a ride. Typical problem: too much to see and so little time! Great views on the road on highway 1, a night in Eureka (wouldn't recommend that) and on we went on highway 101 - mountains, lakes,Read more
Portland - I am in love

Sooo amazing! Portland and its beautiful sorroundings (Mount Hood, Eagle Creek, the Timberline lodge - where the Shining was shot) as well as the people were unbelievably great. Walking around in theRead more
Short stopover in Seattle & Aloha

After the greatest time in Portland, we skipped Canada and just had a couple of hours in Seattle before leaving for Hawaii, but it was nice! Mahalo Northwest and Aloha Hawaii for the next weeks!
Lahaina & the dips

Escaping the rain in Haiku, we drove to Lahaina - a sweet but wee bit touristy place with a lot of very white american tourists in hawaiian shirts - in the west. Afterwards we really deserved a dip atRead more
Hawaii - Maui and Kauai turtely awesome

Enjoying life at its best. Craters, waterfalls, sunsets, beaches, wildlife and great people! Could be way worser, to put it in my best english 😉
Northshore Kauai - Tunnels Beach

Beautifull beaches, some nice snorkeling and what a sunset!
Napali coast

What an amazing boat trip! Napali coast with dolphins, turtles, snorkeling, waterfalls, hawaiian dinner and sunset - beautiful and no motion sickness after all!
Waimea canyon & loads of coffee

Today we visited the little sister of grand canyon - Waimea canyon. Beautifull but not like Bryce canyon; we've become high maintenance by now... hawaiian coffee and koloa old town - 1st town in KauaiRead more
Tahitian dance & drum festival

Took the bikes to a tahitian dance & drum festival today. Amazing to see, what these girls and boys could do with their hips. No way, a German would ever succeed in that!
Aloha O'ahu

Last stop in Hawaii - Oahu. Everyone told us, it is awfull, but so far, so good! Beaches, mountains, even the hike up Diamond head was amazing, and we finally tried shaved ice with rainbow taste,Read more
Gone surfing!

Finally we managed to take a surfing lesson. It was amazing and after Lars stood his first wave, I just had to get the second! And a hawaiian monk seal shoved us how to really surf in the end.Read more
Lazy days

Beaching, hanging out and trying to get back on the boards, chillaxing hawaiian style!
Surfpics

We got our pics from the surf lesson today - so here is the proof!
Aloha Hawaii - Konnichiwa Tokyo

After some really beautiful last days and sights on Oahu (incl a hike, some hidden gem beaches and Honolulu China- and Downtown) we finally said goodbye to the US and made our way to Japan with aRead more
Soso Tokyo!

Just walking around town watching people is super cool! Besides that went to see a ballgame (crazy fans), the Senso-Ji tempel, the Imperial Palace, the crazy 5-way Shibuya crossing and the hippieRead more
Shinkansen to Kyoto

Today we took the speedtrain Shinkansen to Kyoto (2,5 hours train ride for 450 Km) incl a smoking room - very nice! Arrived in our very japanese appartment with a private onsen (hot bath, not that youRead more
Osaka: cooking class and sight seeing

Went to Osaka today to take a cooking class. Yucco showed us amazing japanese family food and explained a lot about the culture. I learned, how to make a decoration cut, different broths, 4-layeredRead more
Hiroshima & Kyoto maquakes

After a visit of the maquake monkey park yesterday (great place, where they cage the visitors and let the apes run free - even managed to feed them and saw two babies), we visited Horoshima and theRead more
Cebu, Philippines

The trip from Tokyo to Oslob on Cebu Island was exhausting - 4,5 hours plainride with Vanilla Air and a 4 hours drive (for 130 Km) through slums, burning trash and pure poverty, while fighting drugsRead more
Snorkeling with whale sharks

Although we had to get up at 5 a.m. it was sooo worth it. Did snorkeling with whale sharks today. Those cuties were 6-8 m long (can get up to 12-18 m and weigh 12 tons), but totally calm. They evenRead more
Escape to paradise - Moalboal

After the whale shark snorkeling, some hanging out at the pool and a massage in Oslob, we decided to leave to Moalboal for two days. George, our driver, managed the roads like a pro and now we have aRead more
KL - Malaysia you rock!

Getting up at 1 a.m. to drive to Cebu City and fly to Kuala Lumpur was one of those travel moments you just have to save as "interesting". Beeing back in KL is amazing - the Petronas towers, the KLRead more
Nepal - just... wow

Flight from KL to Nepal with a lot of people, that have apparently never used an aircraft before. We left late, because 80% of the other guests needed to take selfies with the plane! Kathmandu isRead more
Drive around Kathmandu

Hari brought us to Patan Durbar square, Baktapur Durbar square and his hometown Nagarkot (nearly saw the Everest, but it was a bit cloudy) today. Allthough the earthquake in 2015 has ruined quite aRead more