This is us
When I stumbled across the word serendipity one day, it struck me. What beautiful concepts are united in such a cheerful word that is able to describe a whole attitude towards life. Not surprisingly, it became our guiding principle, because as different as we are, the openness for the unexpected and the beautiful can be found in every one of our travel styles.
But how did this travel magazine come about? Let us explain! After a few unsuccessful research hours on the Internet about questions that long journeys sometimes raise, it was decided: if we can’t find such information, it doesn’t mean that those questions haven’t been raised by others and there must be a space where answers can be collected. Because such a space does not seem to exist, we created it ourselves. We decided to map this partial void of the Internet. Mapping The Void.
If you have found answers as well, which the internet and travel guides did not want to present to you and would like to share them with the world, you are welcome to support us in this admittedly somewhat ambitious task!
Roxy
That’s how I started traveling
Working in a bookshop years and years ago I often stood in front of the shelf with the travel guides, fascinated by the sheer infinity of diversity in our world. One day I realized: how can you understand who you are if you don’t know where you are and what other realities of life look like? So I quit my job, packed my backpack for the very first time and haven’t stopped being curious and trying to understand ever since.
That’s my favorite way of traveling
With an open heart, a smile in the eyes and wonder as a constant companion. This is how you meet the most beautiful people and get to ask questions, that no travel guide could answer.
This region is calling me
The vastness of the Mongolian plains, the heights of the Tibetan mountains, the colors of India, the mosaics of Iran. And everything in between on the way there.
That’s where I feel at home
In Berlin’s streets, where German is not the only language that surrounds me, where one can immerse yourself in a multitude of cultures and feel as if the world is visiting you – a kind of stationary journey.
The most unusual thing I take on my trips
People often wonder about my travel spoon, but for me it is as natural as a toothbrush. How else should you spoon out maracujas at borders that are not allowed to be imported into the next country, eat the leftovers from yesterday or the yogurt you just bought without having to pull the cooking utensils out of your backpack? Exactly!
Also always in my pocket: a decision coin. In my case an old Swedish Krona, decorated with a man’s head on one side and an elk on the other. It’s easy to guess to which side the preferred outcome is assigned. In the end, it’s always the process of choosing the side that leads to a decision, because I actually flip the coin until I have the moose on the back of my hand. Maybe it doesn’t work 100% like decision coins should, but if it helps me with decisions, it fulfills its purpose.
Something traveling taught me
That there are no coincidences, happiness and contentment can take unexpected forms and that people have beautiful hearts. Besides, everything always turns out to be good. Always. It really is astonishing.
Mariam
That’s how I started traveling
At the age of six months I sat in an airplane for the first time and that’s kind of how it continued
That’s my favorite way of traveling
With a destination in my mind but without a plan when and how to reach it, then I can’t get lost but it still stays exciting
This region is calling me
All regions, but I especially didn’t finish with Africa, but I mean when are you ever finished with a place?
That’s where I feel at home
Up to now on the road and since recently on the window board of my new room
The most unusual thing I take on my trips
My Coconutradio
Something traveling taught me
That no one will make the non-divisible world divisible, that I have a lot of time, that the craziest path is often the best, that life is a roller coaster ride and that everything will be fine in the end
Jürgen
That’s how I started traveling
Actually I always wanted to be abroad, as a pupil on a bicycle (Alps, Yugoslavia), as a student in a VW bus (Greece, Sahara, West Africa) as a father with different cars (Europe, Burkina Faso, Egypt) and now on a bicycle again (South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania).
That’s my favorite way of traveling
Alone or with a loved one.
This region is calling me
Africa
That’s where I feel at home
Under a Baobab in the Sahel.
The most unusual thing I take on my trips
Wine cup
Something traveling taught me
That I am quite privileged.