Pipilika

20/04/2025

And your travel/ living can also be in your own time and space, even if you are not on the spectrum..

13/04/2025

This is the reason why i dont google things to do, places to see, what to eat etc when i go to a new place. I let the locals/ hosts guide me, my feet and instincts to take me as the journey unfolds. When the heart trusts in today, there is no FOMO (fear of missing out) but JOMO (joy of missing out).

~ deepa

06/04/2025

Especially when you travel/ live on the road :)

31/03/2025

23/03/2025

YAY!!!

The ferry from India- Sri Lanka has restarted.

This winters would love to plan a cycling/ walking journey without phone and money with someone 🙂

PM me if you would like to explore this with me!

16/03/2025

09/03/2025

Honour the body and everything else may follow? :)

02/03/2025

Thoughts? :)

17/02/2025

Last 3 weeks have been the "BIG pause" in my life.

I informed the people i am working with about my upcoming long absence. And then ignored calls, sms and didnot even log into to the net for 2 weeks and protected myself from other people's stories.

These strong decisions (especially to step back as a savior) helped me to be fully present to what my body was requesting from me. I was able to listen to it and could clearly tell my carers what i needed to feel better. Thus, there was no friction between the 24/ 7 caring team and me and their efforts- time- energy have been super effective.

But one does not need to wait to go through a freak accident to take "the PAUSE".
One just needs to give oneself the permission to rest, block the world and create a self retreat wherever one is. Even when one is on the road/ on a vacation.

When was the last time you allowed your body- mind- soul to rest?

02/02/2025

Do you own a three-wheel Italian scooter, reside in Australia and suffer from a soul-destroying desire to drive to the capital of France? If you also have two small children and the nerve to actual…

26/01/2025

“When somebody's offering you food, they're telling you a story. They're telling you what they like, who they are. Presumably, it's a proud reflection of their culture, their history, often a very tough history. You turn your nose up at that important moment, the whole relationship changes, and it will never be the same.”

–Anthony Bourdain

19/01/2025

“The journey is part of the experience — an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.”

–Anthony Bourdain

12/01/2025

After a really long time, Tautik and i am gearing up for an intensive workshop on travel, where we shall be sharing from our 2 decades of travel experience.

Workshop Details:
https://sulkurl.com/i2j

To register:
https://sulkurl.com/i2k

Write to Ekta (number on the poster) to know more.

About Tautik

Tautik is passionate about inspiring people to travel — to travel long-term, to travel frugally, to take that long journey into oneself. A fauji kid, Tautik has grown up across India attending nine different schools/institutes. A 4-month long road trip across India turned out to be a seminal moment for him. He changed over from being a Management Consultant for the corporate world to one who works towards generating livelihoods with non-profit organizations. He feels alive on the road. Tautik has swum with the hammerhead sharks in Galapagos, travelled in a boat along the Amazons from Colombia to Brazil, slept with the homeless in Argentina, driven an old motorcycle (a La Poderosa II) across Bhutan, feasted with strangers in Iran, camped alongside a glacier in Chile, and lived with the tribal of Central India. Travel, he says, helped him appreciate minimalism. When all his needs fit neatly into a backpack, all the stuff back home quickly became redundant. He believes in the philosophy of an impermanent home. At present, you can find him dwelling in a small village in the Central Himalayas.

About Deepa

Deepa has been traveling since her first pay cheque (2003) and exploring themes around- slow- green- minimal- solo- frugal- volunteer- gratitude journeys. She loves living long term in places to soak the daily local life- culture and forge lifelong friendships. These include many summers in Ladakh and winters in North East, hitchhiking through Iran, taking the road from India- South-east Asia, crossing the highest non motorable pass of the world on foot (twice) in Nepal, walking the Dandi march and cycling through India without phone and money and more. She recently lived in Brazil for a year without money, exchanging skills for food and board.
Travel, she says, has taught her the power of less and being more.
With (almost) no fixed base she lives with whoever houses her, expanding her definition of home, friends and family.
She is also the founder of (inter) nationally acclaimed alternative initiatives in: gift culture, zero waste lifestyle, flow funds, reclaiming your food, living a self designed- intentional life etc.
More can be read about her life- work- travels in this profile link https://tinyurl.com/v9nwba2

06/01/2025

I broke up with rushing today, and honestly, it had been a long time coming.

Somewhere in the midst of trying to raise a child, run a business, sort out Christmas shopping, deep clean the house before I put the decorations up and holding on the phone to try and get through to the hospital, I decided enough was enough.

I stopped everything I was doing, walked to the nearest cafe, bought myself a drink and did nothing. After I'd soaked up the peace, I had a chat with rushing and decided it was over between us.

So, from now on, I may be late at times, but I won't be arriving frazzled; I'll be arriving grounded and in a way that allows me to show up and be fully present. From now on, things might not get done as quickly as they could, but they will be done with love and in a way that is pleasurable for me. From now on, my body, not the clock, will set the timescale. And I don't feel at all guilty about that because one day, when I look back, I want to be able to say that I was here, that I soaked it all up and that love came first.

Maybe it's time for you to break up with rushing too?

~emily jane

01/01/2025

To a never standing still but being still 2025!

29/12/2024

“It is a constant series of surprises, of having everything I thought I knew turned upside down. People nearly everywhere have been lovely to me. Most places, people are extremely proud of their food and are frankly flattered when somebody asks about it…

My first obligation, I feel, is to be a good guest. I go to great lengths, and have had to choke down some pretty funky meals to do that. It’s a strategy I highly recommend if you’re looking to make friends and have a good conversation.”

– A Bourdain

22/12/2024

A FEW MONTHS AGO, I went to the outskirts of Mumbai to a place called Vasai, where there stood the ruins of a fort that was once the epicen­tre of the Portuguese presence in India. The fort had been indomitable because it introduced a new equation into the subcontinent: sea power. Border­ing the A...