Robbed on the day I arrived in Windhoek.

This is the hardest moment of my journey so far.

Read the full story on my blog and please share — it really helps.

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I am collecting donations from now until April 16, 2026, to help me recover after a robbery. Can you help?

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🎥 Google surprised me with a short video made from my photos over the past years. It shows this day in previous years of my travels.

This month marks 9 years of traveling for me. Back in 2022 I could never imagine I’d still be on the road — and now here I am.

Watch it on Loops: https://loops.video/v/efMmPT4v84
Shared via: @rubenstorm

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Morning under Kilimanjaro ☕🏔️

Short night — sleep only came after 2 a.m., and I was up again before 7. Cold water only, a cold shower, then up to the rooftop for breakfast.

With coffee in hand, I watched Kilimanjaro stand clear this morning, free of clouds, sharp and quiet against the sky. A view like that doesn’t need much else.

Another coffee now.

Today is about numbers and decisions: bus prices, timetables, places to stay. My visa in Tanzania is coming to an end, so every choice matters a little more.

Soon I’ll head into town and face the “mzungu price” — where everything suddenly costs more just because you’re white.

For now, I’ll finish this coffee and let the day unfold. ☕

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Odessa, Ukraine — fragments of a city that once felt like home

Here are some old photos from Odessa, a city that became a quiet anchor during the first years of my life on the road. In this post, I’m sharing 8 images taken across different moments and different visits, small windows into a place I kept returning to over time.

Back then, Odessa wasn’t just a stop on a map for me. It was a city I came back to again and again, because something about it felt alive in a way I couldn’t fully explain. I loved the atmosphere in the streets, the mix of history and everyday life, the long walks along the coast, and the architecture that seemed to tell stories even when you didn’t know the language. No matter what the weather was like, I walked. Rain, wind, or sun — it didn’t matter. Being outside, moving through the city, was part of how I experienced it.

Many of those days ended with the same small ritual. I would sit down at Aroma Kava, order a cappuccino and a piece of cake, and watch the city flow past. Locals, travelers, snippets of conversations in different languages, the sound of traffic and footsteps — all of it blended into a kind of calm background that made me feel both alone and connected at the same time.

The last time I left Odessa was in February 2022, through the airport. At the time, I didn’t know it would be the last time I would see the city the way I remembered it.

Since then, everything feels different. The memories are still warm, but they carry a quiet sadness now. If the war had never happened, I know I would still be going back, still walking those same streets, still sitting in the same cafés, and still adding new chapters to a place that once felt like a second home.

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🚗✨ “The past is closer than it looks… and still trying to shine on you.”
🌅 Sometimes the universe sends a sunset in your rear-view just to remind you:
➡️ Keep moving—beauty follows.

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October 2025 Grab Bag o’ Humour

Wouldn’t you know it, that a rock star like Steven Tyler would sing the line “Life’s a journey not a destination.” That would be a rock star who has spent half his lifetime touring and thus been on a journey. But every journey has its destination. If your life is the journey than the destination can be no other place than death.

I prefer not to say my whole life is a journey. Maybe it’s many little journeys. I can live with that. Then half my destinations are going home which is a lot more comforting than saying my final destination is death. And many of my journeys away from home I’ve enjoyed, too. So I’ve enjoyed more than half my destinations. It sounds like I very well might enjoy my life more than Steven Tyler who is going straight to death.

So I guess my line would be, “Life is journeys, not just one big destination.” Awkward perhaps but still better than Tyler’s line.

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A month or two ago I saw something on the news that made me think. It was a drug bust where the cops carefully showed the wares they had nabbed.

Some of the drugs were in a package. I was impressed that they tried to make the package inviting. The packages said “Road Runna” as the title. There was a cartoon drawing of a road runner that was a little bit different than Warner Bros.’ Road Runner cartoon.

I laughed at all this. Underground gangs are so scared of copyright law that they will not use the normal road runner on their drug packets. They felt they had to change the name and not completely rip off the art.

I can just see them in prison comparing notes.

“What are you in for?”

“13 Years for drug trafficking. You?”

“I’m in for a couple millennia for violating copyright.”

A hush would descend on them for a couple minutes out of respect for the crime.

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I would like to make a public service announcement about Artificial Intelligence and how to spot it. From now on, Anything named Al is not to be trusted. No matter how many human tests it passes anything named Al is likely to be A. I. and not a person.

Same with Alan, Allen, Alf, Aladdin, Aiden, Sal and Hal. Note that this last, cutesy, dressed up name was already used for the A. I. in 2001 a space odyssey. You didn’t get it then, until Hal started having ideas of his own. So get it now before the real world substitutes A. I. for humans.

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Anyone want to give @vulpinelabs @Kuniti_shino some food and a month's worth of backlogged laundry money?

Hungry engineers and mad scientists want to be fed well and cleanly clothed for their preparations for winter!

They are bureaucratically held back from "just getting a job" right now unless they can #getfedihired as #digitalnomads or informal work.

Edited: $300/$100 for today and tomorrow and some groceries! Thanks!!!

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Paypal:
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Venmo: @Athamanatha

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Patreon (charges large fees, can be monthly): https://patreon.com/vulpinedesigns

Ko-fi (charges small fees):
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Visa+: a service provided by Visa to allow transfers into a PayPal account from a bank, I think?
+Athamanatha.paypal

Throne: needs an address to be set up, DM for info

IBAN: European interbank transfer system. DM for info.

Wise: international low-fee conversions and transfers. DM for info.

ACH: American interbank transfer system. DM for info.

Zelle: international or local money transfers directly between participating banks. DM for info.

Xoom: occasionally a more favourable method than PayPal transfers for sending money between PayPal and someone's bank account. DM for info.

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#MUTUALAID $0/450 #URGENT #EMERGENCYMUTUALAID #URGENTMUTUALAID #PASTDUE

Help a #trans #nonbinary #pansexual #salmacian #otherkin #kitsune to deal with life in this bullshit society a little longer.
Athamanatha is struggling to cover past-due #urgent car loan, credit card, car insurance and overdraft payments. These debts need to be caught up with to reduce the burden of fees and make it possible to afford food and #vulpibus fuel.

Please help hir to get on top of the problem! It is hard to think properly when under constant stress and fear of losing your #schoolie #skoolie vehicle which is also your home and/or losing your only runabout car to something as banal and bullshit as debt collectors or the cops spotting a lapse in insurance.

$450 would be a great start to take care of some of the immediate needs. Can we raise that today?

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