What would your answer be when asked who you are? Your name? Your job? Where you are from? There was a time when Mihai Tufă, a 26 years old Romanian, would have done the same. Was. “I cannot do that anymore as I don’t know exactly”, he writes in his email to me while watching the sunset over Zierker See on his way to Berlin, “instead of who I think of what and that is tricky. At the point, some take me as this fellow traveler who is walking around the world while taking loads of photos…

Taking a cold shower, watching the waves of the ocean or just driving a car, people usually get the best ideas in situations like these. Katharine and David, a 34-year-old couple of British Ecologists got inspired to their incredible travel-project when surveying seabirds in the Caribbean. This was in 2009, and it took them about three years to finally make it happen: “We wanted to do…

Another one of these crazy people! He´s out of the world! It never works! These are only the most harmless thoughts I had when reading the headline of the BBC: “The American who quit money to live in a cave” talks about Daniel Suelo, who dedicated his existence to an especially alternative lifestyle. He lives in a cave in Utah, harvesting wild foods and eating roadkill. He is not a reclose though: The former cooks …

We are not learning for school but for life.

Don´t worry, this post is not about how to be a great student. Nor about recommendations for the beginning of the holidays. Nor about my – traumatising – youth.

No, it is a blog about a project, where students not only learn “for life” but “through life”. Through the life on the road.

Screenshot of the website …

Some people really walk the talk – or the other way round. One of them is Kristin Lajeunesse, a self proclaimed “food and travel enthusiast” who recently set sail on a year-long road trip across the United States. Nothing special? A part from the fact that she travels for vegan food: between August 2011 and October 2012 she wants to visit all 50 states, eat at every single all-vegan restaurant she can find, and share it every step of the way on her …