Stories, expeditions, films and lessons from a life lived beyond the ordinary.
Most people wait for life to begin. They wait for the right moment, the right amount of money, the right amount of courage. I stopped waiting years ago, and I have been documenting what happens when you choose freedom over convention ever since.
I grew up in the Netherlands with a steady path laid out in front of me. Instead, I chose horses, mountains, oceans and a camera. Today I live between Bali, South America and Europe, making films, hosting horseback expeditions and writing a book about what it means to feel fully alive.
More than a million people follow this journey. Not because the landscapes are beautiful, though they are, but because the story underneath is one most of us recognise: the quiet ache for a life that actually feels like ours.
Small-group horseback expeditions through Patagonia, Uruguay and Lapland. Real ranches, real gauchos, real wilderness. No tourism. Just horses, fires, mountains and the kind of friendships that only form far from everything.
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I am writing a book about how to add life to your days before time runs out. It is the deepest project I have ever worked on, written slowly, from ranches, ships and mountain huts around the world.
One day this book will exist. If you want to be the first to know when it does, leave your name on the list.

65+ pages of insider access to Nepal. Itineraries, vetted local contacts and the places few tourists ever find.

The trail-tested checklist and gear strategy that kept me warm, calm and prepared in the Khumbu.

A personal growth playbook across health, identity, wealth and environment, for people who refuse to stay stuck.
“Travel is not the story. Freedom is the story. The horses, the mountains and the oceans are simply where I went to find it.” Susanne Bastings
Reflections, travel stories and lessons from the road. Written the way I would tell them to you beside a fire, late at night, when the day is done and the honest conversations begin.