I’ve been meaning to write this blog for well over a year, and finally managed to get it done:
bigworldsmallsasha.com/2025/12…
It's about my whole journey of writing and publishing my book (all the sweat and tears it took + how much I earned in the end), as well as a few other updates about what I've been doing over the past few years and where we'll likely head next.
Thanks to everyone who's been there for me throughout this journey! I appreciate you all 💛
My Book Release – and Other Ultra-belated Updates
I released my book in 2024 but never got around to writing a blog about it, so here it is— (better late than never, right?) In a nutshell, the book explains my story of traveling around the world for the past 15 or so years with little money (and it …Big World | Small Sasha
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The Citizens' Arrest Network are operating in the UK, executing citizens' arrests of the Chief Executives of companies devastating our world ✊🏼
(and filing carefully-researched cases for the Crown Prosecution Service to follow up)
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Citizen’s Arrest Network: chief executives beware
CAN confronted Southern Water’s chief executive Lawrence Gosden Amjad Bseisu, the head of North Sea energy giant EnQuest Bseisu is one of the chief executives who have faced an attempted citizen’s …Protest UK
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This is one of the most remarkable documentary series I've seen recently. Amazing! Must watch!
#evolution #documentary #bbc #human #Anthropology #Paleontology
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A world without money - youtube.com/watch?v=4oXSNkzuS5…
A very interesting video! Bilbo contacted us for a collaboration. It is fantastic to see that such projects and people still exist out there.
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Tio makes an apple pie in the motorhome (super easy) - videos.trom.tf/w/bPTrNPzGkXgF2…
You only need 5 eggs, 4 apples, a bit of sugar, flour and oil. And you can make a super tasty apple pie. You can use any other fruit so go wild with it! 😃
This is to showcase how with very little ingredients and in such a small space, you can still bake some great sweets 😃
#motorhome #baking #vanlife #travel #spain
Tio makes an apple pie in the motorhome (super easy)
You only need 5 eggs, 4 apples, a bit of sugar, flour and oil. And you can make a super tasty apple pie. You can use any other fruit so go wild with it! :)This is to showcase how with very little ingredients and in such a small space, you can still bake some great sweets :)
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Your social data stays on your device. You own it, it's private, you decide what happens with it. This unlocks powerful local tools that shared servers can't offer. Since ActivityPub does not lock you into one format, we take full advantage. Same account, but the interface can change in a tap. Text feed, photo grid, video player. One identity, your rules. That's our goal, and we're getting closer every day.
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It is a "self-hosted" shard of Fediverse, isn't it? Like in, you are discoverable/contactable etc but it's not "I upload this data to a Masto instance", it's more like a "I keep my data on my device and the posts I create are saved on my device, Masto instance gets copies when my device goes online". Kinda like cloud storage where sync uploads data you have on your PC to elsewhere but this local data remains the "single source of truth".
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Sotres, Asturias: videos.trom.tf/w/7wo6HXbkj86AT…
Sotres is the highest village in the Picos de Europa National Park. A bit tricky to get here on the narrow winding road, but well worth the trip! Sotres is so beautiful that in 2024 it got an award from the princess of Asturias 😄 It's also famous for its blue cheese and is the starting point of some spectacular hiking trails in Picos de Europa.
#spain #travel #motorhome #RV #Europe #Asturias #vanlife #vanlifeeurope
Sotres - a wonderfully beautiful town in the mountains
Can you believe this is not Switzerland? We went for a day to this beautiful place just to see how it is. Sasha also found an abandoned villagge and some cute cows. Picos de Europa is now on fire, and it is such a shame because it is a wonderful natural place.
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Really nice documentary about a scientist who made our understanding of tornadoes a lot better. I love to know about such stories of humans who are curious about how our world works.
#documentary #pbs #tornado #nature
One man's pursuit to understand the deadliest storms.
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The tech industry as a whole has gone so far off my moral rails that oil companies are starting to look like sensible organizations to me by comparisons. And I know how bad they are.
(This thought was sparked after seeing a completely out-of-touch subway ad for the Meta Lab pushing their stupid stalker glasses)
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How We Catch Owls at Night - videos.trom.tf/w/1zr9Rsy8fToHm…
#nature #conservation #voluneering #bbta
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The Cares Trail, Picos de Europa National Park: videos.trom.tf/w/iyEMCZAfNjNZH…
An amazing pathway carved into towering limestone cliffs high above a turquoise river, connecting two small villages in the mountains of León and Asturias. This trail makes you feel so small, yet contaminated with awe. We found goats, waterfalls, tunnels, and snowy peaks in the distance. A truly spectacular trek.
#motorhome #travel #Europe #Spain #vanlife #RV #nationalparks #mountains #nature #hiking
Cares Trail - The best place we visited
If there is one place that we liked the most, it was the Cares Trail in Picos de Europa. Amazing trail between huge mountains. You feel so small, yet contaminated with awe. We found goats, little waterfalls, and saw snowy peaks. This is a place we must go again to!
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End of Tio's solo adventures - videos.trom.tf/w/krAqhhhwWYeRE…
This is it, my solo adventures have come to an end. It was a very interesting and useful experience to see how it is to live by myself in the motorhome. I saw many cool places but I was also very work-efficient and did a lot of work on our TROM projects. Overall, a great experience!
#vanlife #motorhome #spain #nature #adventure #solo
End of Tio's solo adventures
This is it, my solo adventures have come to an end. It was a very interesting and useful experience to see how it is to live by myself in the motorhome. I saw many cool places but I was also very work-efficient and did a lot of work on our TROM projects. Overall, a great experience!
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From the province of León, Spain- A big bench, a beautiful drive, great free motorhome parking, and amazing hiking :)
videos.trom.tf/w/sh91caarqRPwp…
#motorhome #travel #Europe #Spain, #vanlife #RV #hike #hiking #mountains #rocks
The most beautiful place we parked at
Acebedo - close to the Picos de Europa, beautiful parking place, great hiking, so relaxing and wonderful. This is the number 1 best motorhome parking spot for us. We also got to experience how it is to be fully offgrid when half of Spain was without electricity we did not notice a thing, having solar panels and satellite internet. We could probably survive a zombie apocalypse :).We hope to get back to this place!
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Really good documentary. Amazing new finds.
#Neanderthal #Neanderthals #documentary
Scientists uncover the secrets of the Mandrin Cave in France, where the remains of a Neanderthal were found in 2015.
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Costs of traveling alone - videos.trom.tf/w/bNaxS9Knpw7VU…
This is how much it costs me, Tio, to travel by myself. I only need food, fuel, and internet data. I have visited some very nice places in the mountain and spent some quiet time by myself.
#motorhome #travel #vanlife #costs #spain
Costs of traveling alone
This is how much it costs me, Tio, to travel by myself. I only need food, fuel, and internet data. I have visited some very nice places in the mountain and spent some quiet time by myself.
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in reply to Tio • • •maybe this documentary is amazing like you say, maybe I would like after watching it. But if I judge the usefulness of it, watching it for 6 hours, I think, nah...
Did you learn much new?
But I guess it is just love for documentaries alone.
Tio
in reply to Mindaugas • •I have seen a LOT of documentaries, and definitely many about the history of our species. But even so this one had new stuff in it I never heard of before. As someone who is very familiar with this subject, this documentary thought me new things that blew my mind. For sure worth it.
Even the way it is made is really pleasant to watch.
Mindaugas
in reply to Tio • • •Ok, I had to watch after encouragement. Ended up watching half of documentary at double (sometimes triple) the speed. Expectation matched reality: documentary is slow & holds little information.
I used to watch science documentaries when I was a teenager decades ago, when everything was fresh new and my english was poor (but still topics were complex like physics). So it was very engaging for a duration of a few months back then, but now, I see most science documentaries as slow with little content & use.
Better example of useful video is this I recently discovered: youtube.com/watch?v=R7FAAfK78_… about climate change science explained in 25 minutes, about important topic for everyone to know. His few videos are fantastic overall.
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in reply to Mindaugas • •I think maybe you got too used with short content?
The documentary reveals new information that is quite recent about the history of homo sapiens and it is very well made. Of course if you already know this info maybe you won't find it that interesting, but as someone who watches tons of documentaries, this one is particularly well made.
To watch it on double or triple the speed is, to me, the best way to ruin any such documentary. Information is not only about the content, but the delivery too: music, phase, scenery, storytelling, etc..
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in reply to Tio • • •we could look through different angles, for example, I can argue that short content is better. Long content is slow most often and likely with little new info (per minute 🙂). And short content, one can choose to watch more densily packed and least known information. Result is learning more in shorter period of time. I find each of us know very little and there is endless things to learn we don't know about. So why watch 5 hour documentary, over 10 minutes of densily packed material about all sorts of things we should know about, but we don't. For example, most people don't know about open source world, on the other hand, there seems to be no introduction videos about it either 🤔 With small exceptions like videos.elenarossini.com/w/64Vu…
we could look through different angles, for example, I can argue that short content is better. Long content is slow most often and likely with little new info (per minute 🙂). And short content, one can choose to watch more densily packed and least known information. Result is learning more in shorter period of time. I find each of us know very little and there is endless things to learn we don't know about. So why watch 5 hour documentary, over 10 minutes of densily packed material about all sorts of things we should know about, but we don't. For example, most people don't know about open source world, on the other hand, there seems to be no introduction videos about it either 🤔 With small exceptions like videos.elenarossini.com/w/64Vu…
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Tio
in reply to Mindaugas • •I agree if you want just facts go read Wikipedia. I also like condensed info so I get to know quicker. However such documentaries are far more than about facts. Are about putting your head and brain through a journey of facts via visual, music, etc.. Like watching a movie, you don't just want to know if X and Y ended up together or who the criminal was.
Therefore documentaries are more than facts, are a way to learn about the world through the experience of visuals and sound. May be a great way to make you also remember those facts.
Also, some things cannot be understood by a few words, you need to "convince" or educate people.
I made 2 documentaries myself. Last one is 5 hours long. Want to know the gist of it? Trade is the origin of most problems. That's all. Short and to the point.
But what do you really understand by that? The reason I explained the same thing in 5 hours and carefully selected footage and music to add with the interviews, is to make people understand that short sentence. It is complex and you need more examples to see what trade is and
... show moreI agree if you want just facts go read Wikipedia. I also like condensed info so I get to know quicker. However such documentaries are far more than about facts. Are about putting your head and brain through a journey of facts via visual, music, etc.. Like watching a movie, you don't just want to know if X and Y ended up together or who the criminal was.
Therefore documentaries are more than facts, are a way to learn about the world through the experience of visuals and sound. May be a great way to make you also remember those facts.
Also, some things cannot be understood by a few words, you need to "convince" or educate people.
I made 2 documentaries myself. Last one is 5 hours long. Want to know the gist of it? Trade is the origin of most problems. That's all. Short and to the point.
But what do you really understand by that? The reason I explained the same thing in 5 hours and carefully selected footage and music to add with the interviews, is to make people understand that short sentence. It is complex and you need more examples to see what trade is and how it affects all of us.
Same with the above documentary. Sure they can tell us in 5 minutes all of the facts but I would miss on how they showcased how ancient people made their tools, where they lived, even the scientists studying them. You miss a lot.
Mindaugas
in reply to Tio • • •here is another example of what seems to be very accessible & densily packed introduction of important information youtube.com/watch?v=UWh1MIMQd1… but close to nobody choose to watch it 🤷🏻 on the other hand.
Based on your answers, my initial prediction seems to be correct: "if I judge the usefulness of it [...] I guess it is just love for documentaries alone."
In other words, it is about happiness hormones or whatever it is called. And we could say, its the same for other alternative activities, like watching densely packed videos instead. So basically neither is better, and it is subjective choice of what works best for us individually.
I already watched your second documentary. Usually I would almost never watch such long things, but as I was impressed by all your work, I choose to watch it and it was very worth it. It is different from Human documentary, because it contained way more fresh ideas. I still don't agree (maybe not YET), but I
... show morehere is another example of what seems to be very accessible & densily packed introduction of important information youtube.com/watch?v=UWh1MIMQd1… but close to nobody choose to watch it 🤷🏻 on the other hand.
Based on your answers, my initial prediction seems to be correct: "if I judge the usefulness of it [...] I guess it is just love for documentaries alone."
In other words, it is about happiness hormones or whatever it is called. And we could say, its the same for other alternative activities, like watching densely packed videos instead. So basically neither is better, and it is subjective choice of what works best for us individually.
I already watched your second documentary. Usually I would almost never watch such long things, but as I was impressed by all your work, I choose to watch it and it was very worth it. It is different from Human documentary, because it contained way more fresh ideas. I still don't agree (maybe not YET), but I am very grateful these original or extreme perspectives exist to be curious about.
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in reply to Mindaugas • •Is not just the love of documentaries, whatever that means. I explicitly explained how information gets understood and retained better or worse depending on how it is transmitted. Watching that documentary may make you not only remember the facts, but understand this immense story of humans, and also how scientists do their work, what motivates them, etc..
I appreciate your positive words about TROM II. I am happy you found that interesting enough to watch it all.
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