[Update] Looking for a Candidate!

[Update] Thank you all for your applications! We were truly touched about the reactions. Now time is up and a candidate was selected. Again: Thank...

[1. update] Worries? Well…

Yesterday [1. update: 19th May] at km 1.645 something interesting happened: We came home from a day in the city. Stop-and-go. In the evening using...

Driver´s License in Chinese

Finally we decided it might be a better solution if Kathy can ride a motorbike as well. At least our Changjiang 750. Although I am...

Our Changjiang 750 – first tours

With some delay comes this article. We are sorry for that but recently we spent a lot more time with our Changjiang 750 than with...

over 1000

With a little smile in our faces we can say we clearly cracked the 1000 visitors. For some pages this might be the hourly traffic...

Everything different. Always

And we thought that is so easy. I have this wonderfully brutal way to always remind myself about my naivety. But sometimes it is really...

Trip Plan Finished

For several days I locked myself up together with only my Laptop, dozens of pizza, gallons of Coke, a more or less functioning VPN and...

Our Phoenix rises from the Ashes

Yesterday we visited the workshop to see the ashes our Phoenix will rise from. The workshop is located in the north-east outskirts of Beijing and...

Accompany us on our adventure!

Life has always been unpredictable. In January 2014 we came to Beijing to travel around the world with each other.

We had to bury this dream.

Circumstances caused painful wounds. But wounds heal when taken care of. And when something dies, it gives space for something new to grow. I decided to continue this page because I realised we have been on

The Long Journey

for quite some time now. It is not so much about where we go but how we live our life.
For the rest of this year we are staying in a wonderful dive resort in the Philippines. Education and diving for work. This is the time to dive and let the soul have a rest. It is time to meet people and to get a better insight into marine life and -sadly- marine pollution.

First of all we write this journal for ourselves. But it also is a great tool to keep our families and friends informed about us. And of course this is a public blog because we believe many of you can find something interesting here, just be inspired

...or simply enjoy the pictures.

So here are the latest happenings in our life!

License Plate and Legal Papers

Marcus - 葛思睿 •03. January 2014Before Leaving Beijing 0

After Kathy’s class we decided to visit Big Bill’s Sidecars to see his ChangJiang workshop. This is the second one we will visit. Hopefully we can talk to them and make them understand what we need. And no, this would not be a language problem… The owner has three (3!) fairly …

First day in New Life

Marcus - 葛思睿 •01. January 2014Before Leaving Beijing 0

So we made it. Kathy already left Hong Kong on December 18. After organising our leaving and spending the last days in an almost empty apartment, I finally arrived in Beijing on 1st January 2014. This is an exciting new time and I can feel that I am ‘back home’ …