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One day you'll wake up, and you won't have time to do the things you've always wanted to do.

DO IT NOW !

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. 

And to all those who think:

“I can still do all that when I retire!”
I tell them: Wrong, you won't be able to do that in your old age. Speaking from my own experience.

 

If I have one regret, it's that I started traveling too late in life and listened too much to people who had no life experience!

If I had had the knowledge I have today, I would have left Germany at the age of 18 and only traveled!

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2018

All trips cancelled until further notice !

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I won't be able to travel for the next years due to my mother's and brother's health problems...

Travelling will have to wait, I only have my mother and brother left...

My moms & brother's health is getting worse and worse!

 Dementia has now struck my mother, who is 89 years old.

It's not only very difficult for me to take care of them properly. 

It's also very, very stressful, and it's starting to eat away at me. 

I haven't slept through the night for many months, either my brother wakes me up or my mother. I don't know how much longer this will be good for my own health...

And going out, even for just a few hours, is out of question!

Luckily I have hobbies, like ham radio & microscopy, to keep me busy while I look after them.

I can tell you: 

An expedition, no matter how difficult it may be, is easier to complete than taking care of your seriously ill loved one...

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I miss traveling a lot.

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And I get really frustrated from time to time...

What really gets me is the social pressure and lack of understanding from people here. 

It seems to me that they have no idea how tense and stressful my situation is.

Everything is so different from what I am used to from Alaska or Canada.

Instead of seeking help or at least understanding, people put obstacles in your way whenever they can, and contempt is never far away...

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28.10.2024

My new box is nice, but not as big as I want...

It might be possible for me to have a box made exactly to the dimensions of my recumbent. 

Someone in Northern Germany could build me one out of sandwich material, if that works, it would be absolutely great! 

I would be able to use the full potential of the box volume!

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01.10.2024

My recumbent bike will become a sun/rain cover system from Veltop. This is exactly the kind of system I have always sorely missed on my Alaska & Yukon tour!

Thank you very much to

Stéphane Delery from Veltop

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16.09.2024

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The frame still needs to be modified slightly so that the big 480l ZARGES-Box fits right!

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12.09.2024

Best mom in the world!

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        Happy 89th birthday!

Today she had a very good day, she noticed everything, and it was a nice break from her dementia, I wish it was always like this...

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31.08.2024

My Armadillo will get a
Schlumpf / Haberstock

Mountain-Drive

                 Unfortunately,
at the moment, I don't have any time to do any work on my Armadillo bike. The care situation with my mother & brother leaves me hardly any free time for myself...

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20.04.2024

“Burn fat, not fuel”!

Hello to my new 

Recumbent-Expedition-Bike 

the Velove Armadillo Cargobike!

I was very lucky to get one. Thanks so much to Dennis Kanter/Velove Sweden, for all his help, I appreciate it very much!

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25.06.2023
In the last weeks, I had a lot of time to work on my website. Working on it was a good distraction from the hole situation, because everything is not so easy…
My brother's and mother's health is deteriorating, I had to take care of them almost constantly at home...
Our government has money for every damn thing, even for the wars in other countries, but for its own people it has nothing left. 
There are savings everywhere. Especially with the weak, because they have no lobby.
Our health system is not what it used to be !
It is more about profit than about the people.
People are only used to optimize their profit…

It is only our family doctor who is a real blessing, he does everything in his power to help my mother & brother to make their life a little better!

A big “Thank You”
Dr. Mikolajewski.
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2007
NWT Expedition
Film Project


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The 3-part HD documentary about my 2007 expedition was broadcast in 2008-2010-2011-2012-2013 and 2015.





ARTE / WDR 2008

Directed by: 

Ralf Breier

Camera: 

Chris Breier & Klaus Sturm 

Underwater-Camera:

Chris Breier


 



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The more I learned about people, the more I like my dog.

I have studied the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasted them with the traits and dispositions of man.

I find the result humiliating…

— Mark Twainvery well said, and I totally agree ! 

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My dog Trixi , best travel companion!

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"I don't hate people. I just feel better when they're not around."

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