I’ve spent my childhood on the far outskirts of a northern German town, where I had the opportunity to wander into a “enchanted” forest daily. And that probably filled me with a lifetime passion to explore the mystical depths of nature. My father, also a passionate explorer (and the world record holder for human continuous cave life endurance), taught me the basics of rock climbing and cave exploring as early as the age of 7, but I never became really hooked on vertical rock climbing. I rather admired the distances, had a desire to reach some far off places, which brought me to a life of wandering, mountain biking explorations into the wild, and later overland travelling in a 4×4 vehicle. Living in Germany, Serbia and USA in my early years contributed to all of this.
Now I’m a professional adventure travel guide, specialized in organizing overlanding (4×4) tours. I photograph and take video footage of my journeys, to preserve all the magic and try to present it to the world. People sometimes ask me how I don’t get tired of this nomadic lifestyle, constantly moving on and sleeping in a rooftop tent. Well, I can simply not have enough of it, ever. Some people socialize, I seek solitude and the unknown, and that is it.
Concerning my attitude and views of today’s world…
Believing that modern political system is the biggest enemy of individual freedoms obviously makes me an anarchist in the ideological sense. Yes, I do believe that the present model of globalisation sucks and should be dismantled, and that demonstrating disobedience, always questioning the rules and being selective in complying with them, is a question of personal integrity, which differentiates us from robots. I’m not a follower of a major religion or a member of any of the mainstream churches, but I don’t see myself as a blatant, scientifically oriented atheist. I do have a deep understanding for man’s spiritual being and needs, for seeking the truth in a religious way. Yes, you could say that I believe that interconnecting force of cosmic energy exists. But the major religions are banalizing and abusing God for things that have nothing to do with being spiritual – they abuse him to control the people.
Being extremely sceptical and critical towards the modern world and it’s practices, my cynical comments about the consumer society and the abusive strategy that marketing divisions of corporations are implementing to turn the world population into their victims (helped by their puppet media), I’m often labeled as a “hater” by the business world. Well, sincerely, I don’t care.
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