ABOUT US
Hi! We're Andre & Lisa!
We are a married South African couple who has been traveling together for almost 20 years, visiting more than 50 countries. In 2017, we took stock of our life and made the decision to 'retire early.'
This was not an overnight decision. It was a goal that we worked towards for years. We always prioritized travel as a way to satisfy our most basic curiosity - to depart from regular life into something new, even if only briefly, before returning to ‘normality’.
Normality, however, is subjective and when you travel to unfamiliar places, you lose your grounding, your bearings - it challenges everything you consider ‘normal’ about life. Everything is unordinary. Everything is important. Everything requires your attention. You understand that because you have no home, every place can equally be your home. More importantly, you realize that time is your most precious commodity.
Of course, things don’t always go according to plan; however, seven years later, we have still not regretted our decision to travel full-time for even one minute.
This website started its life as a simple blog containing some posts of our travels. Over the years, it has grown into so much more.
We have since developed our own “Where To Travel Next” Destination Filter and have added detailed Guides for every Destination.
Right now, we're in our 4th year of traveling around Europe in our 23-year-old camper van called Milli.
Be sure to head over to our YouTube channel where we post weekly videos of our journey!
Sardinia with our Motorhome 2024
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Onwards to a New Destination 2019
WHERE IT STARTED
After we met in 2004, our first travels as a couple were mostly by motorbike, touring around Southern Africa. Whenever we could string together a few days off work, we would hop on our bike and go somewhere new.
Motorbike travel is very different from destination travel – the travelling is as much part of the adventure as is the destination and also you learn a lot about how to travel minimalistically. (You can see some of our older bike blogs under the Namibia & South Africa blog sections). In 2013 we rode the length of Vietnam on a 125cc bike called Jerry).
Looking back at our first overseas trip together:
In 2005, we flew halfway across the globe and living in a tiny apartment in Atsugi, Tokyo, Japan for just over two months! This was while Lisa took part in a master's student exchange program, and it turned out to be one crazy adventure!
Our Japan trip was a true test—one cannot help but be out of their comfort zone living in a place so different from home and experiencing such a difference in culture. Luckily, it was something we both really enjoyed, and that trip made us realize that we definitely want to travel and explore the world further together.
From then on, we always prioritized our spending and vacation days to ensure that we could travel as much as possible. We were always extremely budget-conscious travelers, trying to stretch our money and time away from work as far as possible!
No matter whether we return to a previous destination or seek out new places, there always seems to be an exciting adventure waiting around the corner. We hope that this website will inspire you to fulfill your own travel dreams.
Riding 'Jerry' through Vietnam 2013
Our first trip together to Japan in 2005
SUPPORT OUR WORK
We really hope you enjoy our destination pages, blog articles, destination filter and especially our weekly YouTube videos! We thoroughly research and curate all content ourselves and everything you find on this site is put together by only the two of us. We put an immense amount of time and effort into this project and if you like what we do here, please consider supporting us:
