Susanne Bastings · Filmmaker · Explorer · Expedition Host

Build a life worth remembering

Stories, expeditions, films and lessons from a life lived beyond the ordinary.

A different way of living

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.

Susanne on horseback above the cliffs of Sumba
Chapter One · The Journey

I left a conventional life to find out what an unconventional one could become

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.


Read my story
Chapter Two · The Films

Cinematic stories from the edges of the map



Riders in Patagonia
Chapter Three · Paso Libre Expeditions

Ride beyond the ordinary

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.

Explore the expeditions
The Art of Being Alive — book cover
Chapter Four · The Writing

The Art of Being Alive

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.


Chapter Five · The Resources

Guides for the road, and for the life behind it



“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
Riding at dusk in Uruguay
Field Notes

Notes from a life less ordinary

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.


Read the journal
Letters From The Road

The conversations that do not fit on Instagram

Once in a while I write a letter about what the road is teaching me. The doubts, the beauty, the lessons, the places. No noise, no selling, just an honest letter from wherever I am.

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