Our Principles

I was recently asked, “When are you finally going to put the post about your trip to xy online?”

That question made me realize that I haven’t actually written about our principles yet.

We have a few.

We will only post photos that we took ourselves.

We will only write about things we have experienced ourselves.

If we have nothing positive to say, we describe what we experienced as objectively as possible. We leave the judgment to the reader.

For safety reasons, we will not share our live location with you on this website.
Of course, we have a safety net, and a few people know where we are at any given time.

And then there is the most important point for us:

“Rollator reist mit” is a “can,” not a “must.”

Kurt has had enough “have to” in his life so far. The next stage of his life should be shaped much more by “getting to.”

And my body?

Let’s be honest.

The moment it hears “must,” it’s probably already deciding in which order to make which symptoms worse, just to make absolutely sure I understand that “having to” is not an option for it.

Writing is also something that doesn’t happen on command for me.
Most of the time, I know exactly what I want to say, but I can’t get my thoughts properly sorted out. Sometimes I can’t find the right words, or they’re actually there but just won’t come together properly and don’t express what I’m trying to say. Then a text simply has to sit there until it works again.
And sometimes, after that, it still needs a little more time before I think it’s good enough to put online.

We travel to see new places, experience them, and enjoy them.

If content comes out of that, that’s great.

But the trip itself always has to come first for us.

I don’t want to miss something just because I “have to” quickly photograph this, document that, or do something else for my readers.

We travel first. We write afterward. And when “afterward” is depends on our lives, what we feel like doing, and my body – not on a publishing schedule.

That’s why we don’t force anything.

The photos and stories from a trip go online when:

• we have something to say and show,
• we’ve had the time and felt like sorting through the photos,
• I’ve been able to write the text,
• the text sounds good enough to Kurt and me,
• and I have the time, the headspace, and a good enough day to work on the website.

So it may well happen that you read about a trip today that actually took place several weeks or even months ago.

That doesn’t mean we forgot about the post.

That’s simply Rollator reist mit.