“The emotions when seeing we had made it were overwhelming. Exhaustion from hiking through uncharted terrain and the realization that we had spent 24 hours in one of the oldest and biggest tropical rainforests in the world began to sink in and I was filled with gratitude and joy once again. I felt alive.“

“I remember so vividly how I always thought crossing an ocean would be something I wouldn’t dare to put on my bucket list. I knew nothing about sailing, so it seemed unrealistic, too big, too scary. Too dangerous to do myself. And now I’m sitting here on my night shift. The moon is up, the stars are bright. Waves glistening with bioluminescence.”