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Hippie Van Pan-American Adventure On Pause

You Can Take The Hippie Out Of The Van, But You Can’t Take The Hippie Out Of The Man I have been on the road now for just under two years. Living the van life, driving from Canada to South America in a 1979 VW Bus. I’ve met tons of awesome people and had more […]

Spread Love & Good Vibes – 120 Postcards in 120 Hours

We all know that Hippie Van’s run on peace, love and good vibes. But sometimes we forget that they also run on things like; tires, clutch discs, ball joints, steering dampers, various other parts and of course gasoline. If you have been following along on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, you will have seen that last […]

Hippie Van Mans Favourite Pan American Road Trip Photos from 2014

What a year it has been! I started 2014 leaving Mexico heading South into Guatemala. Eventually I would end up all the way in Lima, Peru before flying home for the Holidays to end off the year with family and friends. I wanted to take a quick look back at some of my favorite travel […]

Feature Video: HippieVan-O-Venturing

road trip adventure

So for those who have been following on Facebook & Twitter, you may have seen that I met up a couple times in the last month or two with Becky & Andrea from Motoventuring. Becky and Andrea have been riding their motorcycles down from Alaska and are currently in the Peru. We met up on […]

Speaking with Seti Gershberg; Creator of Ayahuasca film: The Path Of The Sun

I met Seti Gershberg via an online Ayahuasca community. After reading about some of my Ayahuasca experiences which I shared, Seti got in touch with me to share the documentary he had just finished making about Ayahuasca. The Path of the Sun is a two-part documentary film, Ayahuasca Natures Greatest Gift and Q’ero Mystics of […]

Pan-American-Road Trip Adventure: Looking Back Over Year-1 Part 2

Volkswagen Pan American Road trip

If you read part one of my 1-year recap of this Pan-American road trip adventure that I’m on, you will of course remember that we left off leaving Mexico just after New Years and heading in to Guatemala. I spent a few weeks in San Pedro, Lake Atitlan Guatemala. I found an awesome hotel called […]

My 14-hour Gonzo Style Colombian Ecuadorian Hippie Van Rockslide Adventure

Ecuador border crossing

The day’s were counting down, I was quickly approaching the 180-day allowed stay for tourists per calendar year in Colombia. With this bureaucratic fire under my ass, I headed to the border, leaving from Pasto, Colombia where I had spent the night hosted by Colombian friends. I left Pasto around 12-noon on Sunday. It was […]

Discoverying Ayahuasca (part 5) The Power of Silence

The last entry in my ‘Discovering Ayahuasca’ series, Passion in Purging, detailed my third encounter with Ayahuasca, which took place in mid-June 2014 an hour outside of Cali, Colombia. It was quite a night. Three weeks later, a friend who is doing her PHD on traditional medicine in South America, invited me to what would […]

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