Sarah · Adventurer · Squirrel

Please not another travel blog! Thank goodness, that's not what it is.

I'm Sarah from Germany, 34 years young and I want to inspire you to look beyond the daily grind, to get outside and make time for what really makes you happy. Cheeky and thoughtful, loud and quiet, through joy and grief, self-doubt and courage. Always honest, always from my heart.

From an once unfulfilling office job to remote self-employment, from being a city girl to becoming an outdoor squirrel, from classic consumerism to liberating minimalism and from ladida-existence to conscious living. In an intercultural long-distance relationship with a few decades of age difference.

Here you won't find the latest bubble-shit-cafes on Bali, not the zillionst packing list or bucket list for a trip around the world, and not the best insta-spots in New York City. This is a storybook to laugh out loud, weep quietly, sleep on it and get going. Here you find honest campfire stories and travel fails, adventures to grin and think about, unconventional life decisions, philosophical thoughts, humor and a sack of courage for your own happiness.

Chronology of madness:

2010-2017:

• Trips to half of Europe's capital cities
• Working for various newspapers, magazines and press offices in Germany
• 2014: Bachelor of Arts, Journalism & Public Relations
• 2015-2017: PR and social media geek in an art museum

2017:

• Living my childhood dream and traveling the USA solo for 4 months
• Traveling Japan by train
• Jumping into the next best full-time job, realizing I can't do it anymore, quitting after one week

2018:

• Founding my own media agency and starting to work as a freelance copywriter, author and photographer
• Traveling through Southern Europe with cars, trains and friends for three months
  
• Falling hopelessly in love with my best friend and soulmate from the USA - meeting in Paris
  
• Buying a Tiny House in Germany and renovating it completely by myself with self-taught skills

2019:

• Getting diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis (incurable chronic bowl inflamation)
• Traveling six months through Europe and the USA
• Losing my uncle to cancer
  
• Selling my Tiny House and moving into a shared house with my supercool over 90-year-old grandpa

2020:

• Escaping to Canada over night, a minute before all borders close (covid), to be together with my boyfriend
• Traveling 2.500 miles solo through Germany for 1 month
• Reuniting with my boyfriend in Croatia after being separated for 4 months because of covid-border closures
  
• Circumnavigating the covid-EU/US travel ban by traveling through Aruba
  

2021:

• Turning 30 and gifting myself with long-desired dreadlocks
• Going on roadtrips through Luxembourg and Switzerland
• Circumnavigating the covid-EU/US border closures again by traveling through Costa Rica and onwards to the USA
  
• Publishing of my German book "Angst ist keine Ausrede" ("Fear is no Excuse") by National Geographic
• Roaming through the Southwest of the USA for a month with my boyfriend and a tent
• Starting my book reading tour through Germany

2022:

• Railtripping through Spain and roadtripping through Iceland, the Northwest of the USA, Albania and Ecuador
• Co-authoring the German book "Wieder da und doch nicht hier" ("Back again and yet not Home") by Delius Klasing
  
• German TV station WDR produces a documentary about our long-distance age gap relationship
• My boyfriend gets diagnosed with stage 4 cancer

2023:

• Our life turns into a bucket list - if we're lucky we may have another 2 years
  
• Winter trip to the Arctic Circle in Alaska
• Co-authoring the German book "Abenteuer Heimat" ("Homeland Adventures") by Delius Klasing
  
• Standing by my love while he is undergoing chemotherapy
• Roadtripping through Norway
• Walking the Coast to Coast Trail through England - 192 miles on foot (only 3 months after chemo)
  
• German TV station VOX produces an uplifitng and encouraging documentary about our fight against cancer
• Traveling Nepal by bus
• My grandpa dies only 50 days before his 100th birthday

2024:

• Back to solopreneurship as a freelance author and copywriter at Texthörnchen
• Speaking engagements and travel talks across Germany throughout the winter
• Short revival trip back to Paris
• Roadtrip New Zealand
• Hiking Laugavegur Trail in Iceland
• Van trip Faroe Islands
• Roadtrip Namibia
• Getting married in the mountains of Wyoming
• Car camping trip through California
• Spending Christmas in a remote mountain cabin in the German Alps

There is no life B. You either do it or regret it.