reis – blog – travel
Here you can read short updates of our whereabouts.
So this is kind of a special blog for two reasons; This is the last blog for the foreseeable future and; There’s no map at the bottom showing the route we have driven for the past month, because at the end of March our van went into a container to … Read more
Here are some facts an figures from our road trip. We left the Netherlands on August 6th 2020 an will return to the Netherlands on April 16th 2025. That means we have been travelling for 4 years, 8 months and ten days. Or 1714 days. We have travelled across 4 … Read more
Living in a van for years is a different way of life than the way most people live. And once you leave Europe, things become even more different. Sometimes things are downright weird. Leading us to say some things we’d never thought we’d say. Can you push the ostrich out … Read more
After we finally managed to get diesel in Ciudad Guyana (still black market fuel by the way) we started driving to the coast. In the middle part of Venezuela, the landscape was far less interesting and reminded us of inland Brazil. Farms, burned fields and more trash. Luckily the drive … Read more
So late January we drove in to Suriname. We were immediately surprised by both the cultural diversity and the poverty as well. Of course we knew it wasn’t a rich country but with many of the roads and buildings in poor state and many people on the streets dressed in … Read more
After spending New Years eve around Cacao we drove a bit further south. We spend a night at a campsite where we went on several walks. The following day we drove further in the jungle to spend some time at a carbet near a river. It was quite the drive … Read more
On the 2nd of December we were finally able to leave Sao Luis. Finnley wasn’t completely well yet but the ultrasound was clear and we were told he just needed a little more time to heal. We went on our way to Santarem. In order to drive from Brazil in … Read more
Driving North we camped at several wild camp locations, nothing very interesting. We had one overnight stay in a hotel with a pool, before travelling on. We were tired of continuous travelling in the heat and this one night stay in a hotel made us realise we could really use … Read more
We left the crystal clear lake behind us and drove to further north along the coast. We spend the night close to the city Ilheus. We also went to the immigration police here to try and see if we could renew our tourist visa. We automatically got 90 days when … Read more
At the beginning of September we temporarily left Sao Paulo behind us and, using a rental car, drove to Rio de Janeiro. Rio is Brazil’s most famous city, but not the capital. That’s Brasilia. Rio is most known for its carnival, the statue of Christ the Redeemer and the beaches … Read more