Stories So Far.
My personal regenerative journey.
Wait, where have I been when? And what happened there that I want to remember? Sometimes, in order to make memories stick, let information become experience and knowledge, you need to write them down. I need to write them down. To be able to go back. To be able to reflect. These are insights, moments, and anecdotes about life, travels, and the people I have met and don’t want to forget.
Fiji – a holiday from traveling (11.12.-23.12.)
When I first arrived in Nadi, Fiji, I was a bit shocked. Nothing felt right, it wasn’t at all what I expected it to be and I couldn’t get along with the people around me. After 10 weeks in New Zealand I had to adjust myself anew. I planned my
New Zealand – 10 weeks passed by in a glimpse – what’s next?
So here it is. The last day in New Zealand. It’s crazy how 10 weeks can fly by without really noticing the time. Lucky I have pictures and this blog to remind me what wonderful things I did on my way around the islands. And how wonderful people I met
The last 7 days in Auckland area (NZ ~ 03.-10.12.2017)
Disclaimer: These words are written a bit in a hurry. I couldn’t really correct them and there are still some pictures missing since the wifi is not working properly. I will make an update soon. ***** Sitting in my hostel in Rotorua I felt quite unsure what to do with
Rotorua – My last new place (NZ ~ 30.11.-03.12.)
Rotorua I: I wander through the redwood forest. An hour walk across the geothermal sulfur fields has brought me here. Such a different scenery back there to the forest I’m now in. The smell of conifers reminds me of all the parties at my grandmother’s house in the woods. I
Wellington and Taupo – again? Why? (NZ ~ 26.-30.11.)
Well, you might ask why Wellington and Taupo again? While there is so much unknown still to discover? Good question. I like coming back to places I like. And to get a second glance or an even better look into the place. I have good memories with Taupo and Wellington
Dunedin, Oamaru, Christchurch and Picton – last days on the south island (NZ ~ 17.-26.11.2017)
It’s really difficult to start doing the backpacker travelling again after spending these days on Stewart Island. (I promise I will stop talking about it soon.) It feels like there’s nothing big left to explore and see, so I maybe set my focus on meeting people and finding even more
Sticky note: My oncoming travel destinations, the beauty of stories and what a crazy travelling year so far
When after a day of exploring you end up sitting on a table in a hostel or a bar with new friendly and interesting people around you just met maybe a couple of hours ago there are always a lot of stories which want to be shared. Sometimes you’re lucky
Stewart Island – The challenging North-West-Circuit (NZ ~ 06.-17.11.2017)
Just coming back from my two hikes on the Milford and the Kepler Tracks I was excited to go further south to the third island of New Zealand – Stewart Island / Raikura. Since I got to know about the 9-11 days self-sufficient backcountry hike, the North West Circuit, I
The Kepler Track – 4 days or 4 1/2 hours
Another walk? Yes, the Kepler Track is just around the corner of Te Anau. I literally couldn’t let that chance slip through my fingers. And one rest day had to be enough this time. Although I maybe shouldn’t have stayed that long at the Halloween party in town… During my
The Milford Track – the “finest walk in the world” (NZ ~ 27.-30.10.2017)
Today was the day. I got to walk the so-called “finest walk in the world” after a newspaper article released 1908 in the London Spectator. The track is so popular I booked the huts even before I had booked the flight to New Zealand itself. Crazy, isn’t it? To get
The “places to be” – Wanaka vs. Queenstown (NZ ~ 17.-25.10.2017)
Sometimes it’s so easy to write about my travels and destinations and what happened. And sometimes it costs me hours of thinking and days of collecting enough to write something down. I enjoyed Wanaka and Queenstown a lot and it still was very hard to put some lines together. But
West Coast‘s rains (NZ ~ 12.-17.10.2017 )
Leaving the wonderful Abel Tasman behind we continued our traveling southward along the West Coast. “We” being Michael and me. And it seemed that we would stick together at least until Queenstown. What we learned quickly about the West Coast is the high probability of rain and cloudy weather. One
Abel Tasman Coast Trek – or why sandflies are the worst (NZ ~ 05.-11.10.2017)
Arrived on the South Island it was time for my first Great Walk and my first multi day self-sufficient (concerning food) hike – or tramp how New Zealanders call it. And during the days in the Abel Tasman National Park and Nelson I learned a lot of things. Actually we
Sunny days in Windy Welli (NZ ~ Wellington)
I actually planned to pack the next stops of the trip together in one post but somehow my fingers refused to connect Wellington and the Abel Tasman National Park. So this is just a short excursion to the windiest capital in the world since I don’t have a real catching
Auckland, Hamilton, Hobbiton and Taupo (NZ ~ 21.-01.10.2017)
In these first two weeks it was merely arriving in this beautiful country and trying to settle. I still have the feeling of “I have to do something. Go go, don’t waste time” in me. And it’s hard to get rid of it after years of functioning. So it seems
All the stories so far...
- Let go lightly
- Facing the fear of living.
- The opposite of pessimism.
- Dissolving Linearity – A mountain hike
- The Mountains.
- Leadership is a relationship with your life.
- Jämtland.
- Frameworks don’t make decisions. People do.
- Regeneration is deeply human work.
- Presence
- Creating Space for finding good answers.
- Aligning yourself for better decisions
- For Free vs. A Gift
- Breathing for my mind’s capacity.
- Regeneration is about how we think and act.
- A morning walk. My meditation practice.
- Regeneration is about everyday steps.
- Your journey is your journey. – Midlife reflection Part 2
- Give kindness to yourself. – Midlife reflection Part 1
- As well as.
- Between years.
- Finding the North Star.
- Seeking sense-fulness.
- Developing your grazing strategy
- Brittleness, tools, and funding yourself.
- The city and its overwhelm
- To show up in the world.
- Everything falls into place while being outdoors. [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 6]
- When I sleep in a tent, I feel so much more refreshed. [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 5]
- Being unprepared made me fall in love. [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 4]
- Being uncomfortable slows down time. [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 3]
- I drank from a stream. It tasted like adventure with a hint of moss and ancient ice. [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 2]
- „Don’t pack your fears.“ [Abisko to Nikkaluokta – Day 1]
- Time is never wasted.
- Grazing For Resilience.
- Plans are useless…
- When there was no waste.
- Our Habits.
- Patterns for our system.
- Regeneration is Relationship.
- Everyday we are a Mosaic of Landscape.
- 20.000 Steps.
- Regenerative Grazing.
- Nailing the details.
- A Gift.
- Managing for chaos.
- This is 44.
- The River.
- Land Stewards and Artists
- Sometimes – by David Whyte
- A Community Context,
- Getting off screens to be able to really see.
- Offline weekend – part 2.
- Offline weekend – part 1.
- This was my start.
- Going on a date with the land.
- Creating community to regenerate landscapes
- Management for regeneration.
- Falling.
- When one becomes many.
- The care for our things.
- A place to belong.
- Regeneration is about moving with the speed of life.
- Just for joy.
- AI can’t solve this.
- Feeling
- Strengthening community within community.
- Monitoring in Les Cévennes.
- Defining myself is like confining myself.
- A place’s memory
- Seeing with new eyes
- This is not a spoon.
- Coffee
- Caring capacity
- What is mine to do.
- Wintering
- Shifting perspectives. Hunting.
- Information. Experience. Knowledge.
- Principles of Regeneration.
- Technology
- Building relationship.
- The more beautiful questions.
- Ecological Health. Inside and outside.
- Plan. Monitor. Replan.
- Economically? Financially?
- Journey to health.
- EOV. Or why monitor?
- Leadership. Or Leadersheep?
- Re-Storying Community
- The good neighbor.
- Starting Points.
- Thought in between trees
- Unplanned. [US roadtrip 2022.]
- Holistic Management ist eine Reise.
- Becoming.
- Wildness and a bear. [US roadtrip 2022.]
- Holistic Management is a Journey.
- Clearing.
- Oregon‘s misty soul. [US Roadtrip 2022.]
- Wintering
- Californian Breakfast Diner [US Roadtrip 2022]
- Nevada Drive. [US Roadtrip 2022]
- Yosemite. [US Roadtrip 2022]
- Integrazers – timberland and wildfire prevention
- Zion. [US Roadtrip 2022]
- West Bijou Reflections
- West Bijou Reflections [US Roadtrip 2022]
- High Desert. [US Roadtrip 2022]
- Locks. [Our Nomadic Life 2022 – Fern Gully, Göteborg (Sweden)]
- Context
- Over the fence.
- Summer Solistice. [Our Nomadic Life 2022 – Encanto, Rönnäng (Sweden)]
- What do I do?
- Mrs? Mrs! [Our Nomadic Life 2022 – Doubtfire, Copenhagen (Denmark)]
- Brat. [Our nomadic life 2022 – Maribo (Denmark)]
- Closing Nature’s Cycle.
- Reality Check. [Our Nomadic Life 2022 – Casblanca (Bremen)]
- Regenerative Dairy?
- Expertus. Or Experii.
- Interbeing. [Our nomadic life 2022 – Batman, Windach (Bavaria).]
- Regeneration messbar machen. // Measuring regeneration.
- Desert in Brandenburg.
- Kingfisher. [Our nomadic life 2022 – Amelie, Neunburg vorm Wald (Bavaria)]
- New chapters. [Our nomadic life 2022 – Leaving Berlin]
- Reconnecting.
- Growing the local mycorrhiza network
- You can’t heal the earth. You can only heal places.
- Creating your lighthouse
- The new normal
- Feeling whole.
- Why everyone’s story matters
- Regenerating.
- Holistic Management – Methoden und Werkzeuge für komplexe Systeme (Teil 2)
- Holistic Management – Entscheidungsfindung in der Komplexität natürlicher Systeme (Teil 1)
- A new decade in the making.
- 5 steps to start with sustainability in your professional life
- In a state of not knowing
- San Francisco. A belated dream.
- Reliving the experience. [Across the Alps 2020]
- Munich to Venice [Across the Alps via bike]
- Leftovers. [Roadtrip around Norway #8]
- A Facilitator in Lockdown.
- I don’t want to know. [Roundtrip around Norway #7]
- My MacBooks.
- North. [Roadtrip around Norway #6]
- Blueberries. [Roadtrip around Norway #5]
- Parallel World. [Roadtrip around Norway #4]
- First snow. [Roadtrip around Norway #3]
- Old water. [Roadtrip around Norway #2]
- Do they blink? [Roadtrip around Norway #1]
- Day and night in a van [Woolleys Bay, 27.01.2020]
- Dark Caves with life [North Island, Waipu, 23.01.2020]
- Trails and Sun [Motatapu Track, 07.-08.01.2020]
- When the days were slow [North Island, 22.01.-28.01.2020]
- Sandflies and Bird Talk [Overnight in Doubtful Sounds, 17.-18.01.2020]
- This is Red the blue penguin
- Things that matter [Edoras, 05.01.2020]
- First hike, hard hike [Avalanche Peak, 03.-05.01.2020]
- Start with a teary eye [Brisbane, 31.12.2019]
- Micro adventure in Saxonian Switzerland [Sächsische Schweiz, 23.-24.11.2019]
- A short escape – Is this still Germany? [Rügen, 23.-25.08.2019]
- Diversity in city life, sustainability and nature [Helsinki, 29.05.-07.06.2019]
- An Easter trip to the Spreewald [20.-22. April]
- The Kerry Way: ~220 km around the Iveragh Peninsula
- Copenhagen – A new year of travels
- 1.554 miles Roadtrip Los Angeles to Omaha [US trip part 3: 07.-09. September 2018]
- Goodbye to the West Coast [US trip part2: 28.08.-06.09.2018]
- New York, New York – or: “I can still be overwhelmed by a city?” [US trip part 1: 24.08.-28.08.2018]
- A spontaneous 336km bike trip [Passau to Vienna, 6.8.-8.8.2018]
- 2 months in a glimpse and new US plans
- Home, weird, Home – Back with a playlist of memories
- Toronto – Goodbye Canada, I’m going home? [Across Canada – part 15: 15.-23.05.2018]
- Brockville – between 1000 islands and the big city [Across Canada – part 14: 08.-15.05.2018]
- Ottawa – A night in jail [Across Canada – part 13: 07.-09.05.2018]
- Nova Scotia – Canada‘s Ocean Playground [Across Canada – part 12: 28.04.-06.05.2018]
- Quebéc City – Haute, Basse et Nouvelle Ville [Across Canada – part 11: 23.-27.04.2018]
- Montréal – French for beginners [Across Canada – part 10: 19.-23.04.2018]
- Toronto – 10 lines for stopover 1 of 3 [Across Canada – part 9: 17.-19.04.]
- 48 hours to Toronto [Across Canada – part 8: 15.-17.04.2018]
- One night in Saskatoon [Across Canada – part 7: 14.-15.04.2018]
- Calgary [Across Canada – part 6: 10.-13.04.2018]
- No bears in Banff [Across Canada – part 5: 07.-10.04.2018]
- Lake Louise without the lake [Across Canada – part 4: 04.-07.04.2018]
- Beautiful ice cold spring in Jasper [Across Canada – part 3: 31.03.-04.04.2018]
- Train meditation from Vancouver to Jasper [Across Canada – Part 2: 30.03.-31.03.2018]
- Vancouver [Across Canada – Part 1: 21.03.-30.03.2018]
- Los Angeles — a rollercoaster ride (Part 2: 26.02.-20.03.2018)
- A short Nebraska Midwest side story
- San Francisco, Yosemite and Sequoia – Coastal roads and giant trees (California ~ 16.-25.02.2018)
- Los Angeles — I hate u, I love u (Part 1: 25.01.-16.02.2018)
- Big Island — sea creatures and good vibes (Hawaiian Island No. 4 ~ 17.-24.01.2018)
- Kaua‘i — A time travel backwards (Hawaiian Island No. 3 ~ 10.-17.01.2018)
- Maui – A road trip to valleys and volcano (Hawaiian Island No. 2 ~ 04.-10.01.2018)
- O’ahu – Gateway to Hawaii (Hawaiian Island No. 1, 29.12.2017 – 04.01.2018)
- Samoa – a short adventure across the Pacific (24.-29.12.2017)
- Fiji – a holiday from traveling (11.12.-23.12.)
- New Zealand – 10 weeks passed by in a glimpse – what’s next?
- The last 7 days in Auckland area (NZ ~ 03.-10.12.2017)
- Rotorua – My last new place (NZ ~ 30.11.-03.12.)
- Wellington and Taupo – again? Why? (NZ ~ 26.-30.11.)
- Dunedin, Oamaru, Christchurch and Picton – last days on the south island (NZ ~ 17.-26.11.2017)
- Sticky note: My oncoming travel destinations, the beauty of stories and what a crazy travelling year so far
- Stewart Island – The challenging North-West-Circuit (NZ ~ 06.-17.11.2017)
- The Kepler Track – 4 days or 4 1/2 hours
- The Milford Track – the “finest walk in the world” (NZ ~ 27.-30.10.2017)
- The “places to be” – Wanaka vs. Queenstown (NZ ~ 17.-25.10.2017)
- West Coast‘s rains (NZ ~ 12.-17.10.2017 )
- Abel Tasman Coast Trek – or why sandflies are the worst (NZ ~ 05.-11.10.2017)
- Sunny days in Windy Welli (NZ ~ Wellington)
- Auckland, Hamilton, Hobbiton and Taupo (NZ ~ 21.-01.10.2017)
- Sydney – or why I had no other choice
- Caught in a 5-days Singaporean sling (Sep 8th to 12th)
- The journey starts… bye Europe.
- Crossing the Alps from Oberstdorf to Vernago incl. bonus level (20.08.-29.08.)
- Camino de Santiago – the last steps from Santiago to Finisterre and Muxia (~120km)
- Goodbye work… and thank you.
- Taking a deep breath in Dublin area – 7th to 11th July 2017
- It starts getting real
- All beginnings are difficult