Tio

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A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.

Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.

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Tio

Friday, March 14, 2025, 9:55 PM

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Friday, March 14, 2025, 9:55 PM

We have started our journey and lost most of our footage.... - videos.trom.tf/w/5XT3pQdsFVQmR…

These are the first days on the road for us, and the experience was not the best. We went to Deltebre, a very weird place...we were so happy to move away from it. But we also experienced some nice other places on the way there.

#spain #travel #europe #vanlife #motorhome #camper #delta

#europe #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #Delta #camper #motorhome

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in reply to Tio Monday, March 17, 2025, 9:34 AM

I will patiently wait for a video on monthly expenses living in car vs 1 bedroom apartment in Spain. I have seen such videos on Canada Mexico and the US yet I haven't seen on Spain it could be interesting :)

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in reply to Kellen Monday, March 17, 2025, 10:35 AM

We will do. We just have to wait a bit and see how much we spend. We are keeping track of all that.

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Saturday, March 8, 2025, 7:26 PM

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Saturday, March 8, 2025, 7:26 PM

This is what we did before starting our adventure (lenghty update) - videos.trom.tf/w/ivyg4KLX2LVmD…

We know this is a very lenghty update but we wanted to showcase what we did for the past 2 months to prepare for our adventure. We put more batteries, more solar panels, new mattress and more! 😃

#motorhome #spain #europe #vanlife #camper #travel

#europe #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #camper #motorhome

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Kellen

in reply to Tio Sunday, March 9, 2025, 9:51 PM

maybe i missed certain posts but you put something on how to deal with cold and warm weather

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Tio

in reply to Kellen Sunday, March 9, 2025, 10:11 PM

So far we have not experienced any weather extremes. Well now we have been through a storm and the temperature goes as low as 0 Celsius, almost freezing. But that is rare and only at night. We have a heater that was part of the motorhome and does wonders. It works on propane and since the motorhome is so small it heats it up really well.

For example now outside it feels like 1 Celsius and feels like it is snowing (that kinda of rain in between rain and snow) :), but inside there are around 22 degrees with the heater at half power. Super comfy inside.

For the summer we will probably need to put some vents or even an AC unit.

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in reply to Tio Monday, March 10, 2025, 1:30 PM

i see many many videos on van life many of them put AC unit in the end its must have in van life you will see in hot day :)

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Tio

in reply to Kellen Monday, March 10, 2025, 3:47 PM

hm an AC means several things: first you plan to go to very hot areas. Hot areas are usually full of people in Europe. So we avoid that. Second an AC unit will consume a ton of energy....probably from 500 to 1000W. And that is hard to achieve with just solar panels and batteries for a small motorhome like ours. But we will consider for sure....

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Friday, March 7, 2025, 7:40 PM

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Friday, March 7, 2025, 7:40 PM

TROMhome out in the world :)

New videos coming soon :) - Subscribe here videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/vide… directly follow on fedi tromhome@videos.trom.tf

#motorhome #spain #peertube #fedi #travel

#PeerTube #sPAIN #travel #fedi #motorhome

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Saturday, February 22, 2025, 8:49 PM

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Saturday, February 22, 2025, 8:49 PM

The view from our motorhome today:

Yeah I got a headache driving here because it took us 6 hours to also stop buy food, put gas, etc., But man....what a fucking view...

Before this place we stayed in another one, so close to nature. We stayed for 3 days because we liked it so much...

Went for a long hike through the mountains and some waterfalls :)

We will publish videos about all of these only on our Peertube channel - videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/vide… - no BS youtube. Straight to Peertube! :)

From tomorrow on we will meet with some of the most wonderful TROM friends in the south-ish of Spain :). So excited to see @Roma and @aaron

I really liked the past few days with the motorhome...thats what I want: nature, relax, dont rush, calmness....

#motorhome #camper #vanlife #travel #spain #europe

#europe #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #camper #motorhome @Roma @aaron

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in reply to Tio Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 9:10 PM

Very nice, where is this spot?

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in reply to minino Thursday, February 27, 2025, 2:38 AM

Thanks. It is in Spain it is called Alarcon

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Friday, February 21, 2025, 6:27 PM

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Friday, February 21, 2025, 6:27 PM

High winds, motorhome gets rocked - videos.trom.tf/w/tD7UzKPiitP6e…

We woke up at 6am because of the winds and we had to move to a different location. New challenge for us 😃

#motorhome #camper #vanlife #travel #europe #spain

#europe #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #camper #motorhome

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Unknown parent Friday, February 21, 2025, 10:41 PM

True! And yes good tip about parking facing the wind. Where do you travel? And what is your earthship? :)

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Unknown parent Friday, February 21, 2025, 10:48 PM

We plan to visit Portugal this year. Ours is also 5.4 meters. Maybe we can meet who knows :). We are going in the South of Spain now.

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Friday, February 14, 2025, 5:14 PM

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Friday, February 14, 2025, 5:14 PM

Motorhome DONE (7): The 3.2 meters long object we could not do without :) - videos.trom.tf/w/rc4GYZuXuhx4d…

We needed a ladder because the one that is attached to the motorhome is really not that good and useful. This is the last video in this series of "motorhome done", just to complete the tour 😃. Next videos will be a lot more interesting 😃.

#motorhome #van #vanlifeee #camper #europe #travel #spain

#europe #sPAIN #travel #van #camper #motorhome #vanlifeee

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Monday, February 10, 2025, 6:37 PM

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Monday, February 10, 2025, 6:37 PM

Motorhome DONE (7): How do we pee and poo :) - videos.trom.tf/w/xf3AF8RhmUzSA…

Ok so this can be a challenge in a motorhome but we think we found a good way to deal with the toilet situation. We are using a "dry" cheap toilet and so far so great!

#motorhome #vanlife #campervan #europe #travel #spain

#europe #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #Campervan #motorhome

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in reply to Tio Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 3:30 AM

I've always wondered if it could be practical to get a composting toilet in a motorhome... 🤔

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in reply to Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 10:55 AM

From what I know to "compost" it will take weeks or months, so not practical inside of a motorhome. Perhaps if you dispose your waste in a landfill where it can be "composed".

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Sunday, February 2, 2025, 7:40 PM

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Sunday, February 2, 2025, 7:40 PM

Motorhome DONE (5): Our Garage :) - videos.trom.tf/w/94Dz9YAtTobWQ…

Believe it or not, we even have a "garage" in our motorhome 😃. Small but really handy and spacious for us.

#spain #travel #vanlife #camper #motorhome #europe

#europe #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #camper #motorhome

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Friday, January 31, 2025, 8:00 PM

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Friday, January 31, 2025, 8:00 PM

Some motorhome updates :)

We are getting it ready for our South of Spain adventures, and overall to start the "journey". I managed to seal the entire roof to make sure it is as water proof as possible, we added 2 more solar panels and these days will add one more (so it will be a total of 650W of solar power - huge); and finally we put our satellite internet so we have unlimited internet everywhere basically, allowing me to work on our TROM projects :).

We spend our time near a river, in nature. But have worked pretty much every day on the motorhome. Lots of little things to do.

The view is amazing!

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#europe #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #van #camper #motorhome

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Saturday, January 11, 2025, 4:41 PM

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Saturday, January 11, 2025, 4:41 PM

Relaxing at the river and getting a new carpet - videos.trom.tf/w/1M8iYmHeiVTLT…

Just a relaxing day at the river. Nice, cozy, calm. Nature 😃. We've also bought a big carpet to put in the motorhome to make it cozy and keep it clean.

Follow us at tromhome@videos.trom.tf

#motorhome #travel #camper #vanlife #tromhome

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Relaxing at the river and getting a new carpet

Just a relaxing day at the river. Nice, cozy, calm. Nature :). We've also bought a big carpet to put in the motorhome to make it cozy and keep it clean.

#travel #vanlife #camper #motorhome #tromhome

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Friday, January 3, 2025, 11:49 AM

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Friday, January 3, 2025, 11:49 AM

We replaced all of the windows' blinds with new ones - videos.trom.tf/w/k1kdbjbDaBBJU…

We decided that replacing all of the windows' blinds is quite a must from a privacy and security perspective. And it was not too difficult to put the new ones. This may be a useful video for those who want to do this for their own motorhome.

#motorhome #vanlife #spain #camper #travel #peertube

We replace all of the windows' blinds with new ones

We decided that replacing all of the windows' blinds is quite a must from a privacy and security perspective. And it was not too difficult to put the new ones. This may be a useful video for those ...

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#PeerTube #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #camper #motorhome

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Tio

Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 11:01 PM

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 11:01 PM

We may have found the perfect motorhome. Plus was GoFundMe a mistake? - videos.trom.tf/w/suHmXNPUBLUUW…

We are searching for a good motorhome in Europe to buy. Second hand of course, and around 20-24 years old. It is what we can afford. Luckily we may have found one! 😃

#motorhome #trom #camper #travel #europe

We may have found the perfect motorhome. Plus was GoFundMe a mistake?

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#europe #travel #trom #camper #motorhome

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in reply to Tio Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 5:06 PM

You seem very happy and excited talking about these plans, glad to see that 🙂 I hope everything goes well and wish for this to be a new chapter in your life :)

Also, you look good in those glasses BTW 😄

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Tio

in reply to Rokosun Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 6:48 PM

Thanks a lot friend! :) Yes I am super happy and excited about all of this! :)

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Thursday, September 19, 2024, 4:42 PM

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Thursday, September 19, 2024, 4:42 PM

If you want you can subscribe to our new Peertube channel for our new project TROMhome - videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/vide…

tromhome@videos.trom.tf

Likely I will post there a lot more often than on the other channels.

#peertube #travel #motorhome

#PeerTube #travel #motorhome

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Monday, April 29, 2024, 11:58 PM

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Monday, April 29, 2024, 11:58 PM

I finished reading Sasha's book

I finished reading @Sasha 's book after reading a rough draft some 2-3 years ago. I wrote a review when she released the book but now that I finished it and it all is fresh in my mind I want to briefly say some condensed atom-sized thoughts about it, without spoiling it for those who have not read it.

This book can be deceiving. You may think it is about a small cute girl traveling around the world with very little money. And that is part of it, but the unique aspect of this book is the overall mental growth for Sasha. This is what I LOVED about it. To see how a human grows to understand how the world works and how that makes her react. All of the crazy and wonderful (at times scary) adventures are not just that, are part of the ingredients that create the cake.

And she is a wonderful cake.

The places that Sasha saw and got to experience

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I finished reading @Sasha 's book after reading a rough draft some 2-3 years ago. I wrote a review when she released the book but now that I finished it and it all is fresh in my mind I want to briefly say some condensed atom-sized thoughts about it, without spoiling it for those who have not read it.

This book can be deceiving. You may think it is about a small cute girl traveling around the world with very little money. And that is part of it, but the unique aspect of this book is the overall mental growth for Sasha. This is what I LOVED about it. To see how a human grows to understand how the world works and how that makes her react. All of the crazy and wonderful (at times scary) adventures are not just that, are part of the ingredients that create the cake.

And she is a wonderful cake.

The places that Sasha saw and got to experience make me feel like I lived in a cave my entire life. I bet many people will think that Sasha invented some of these stories because it is insane in a few years time to jump from tribe to tribe, meet locals, go live with them, have extraordinary experiences with them, have no money, then work a few months make a shit load of money, buy a car, live in the car; hitchhike the entire Europe, sleep in the middle of Australia, go and snowboard for free or little money on so many tall peaks from all around the world, become a divemaster, surf awesome waves in Hawaii, drive your car across the entire USA and swim with dolphins, sharks and manta rays.

Fucking shit! This human lived 55 lives in 15 years. You either get depressed at that, thinking like me that you have not experienced even 1% of what she experienced, or make you motivated to go see the world and free yourself from this trade based society (which also makes me want to do).

Sasha did a WONDERFUL job describing all of these places and experiences. No photos needed! And many of these adventures and places will forever live inside of my brain as if I was a close observer.

Best of all, in my view, is that now she signed a "contract" with me with this book, to join me in my battle! :) A battle of TROM vs Society! Her book is her contribution and there is more to follow!

With that she sandwiched her book perfectly - the beginning bun (prologue) that will give you a taste of what is about to come; in the middle are the many flavors of ingredients stacked neatly and chronologically on top of each other - some 300 pages of life; and lastly the top bun that perfectly brings it all together in a perfect taste, connecting the dots and making all of the ingredients and the bottom bun part of one big thing.

Big World.....Small Sasha...

Congratulations for this huge amount of work!

Grab her book from here bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/

#trade #capitalism #travel #trade-free #adventure #hike #book #bookrelease

#Capitalism #book #travel #trade-free #trade #adventure #hike #bookrelease @Sasha

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Sasha

in reply to Tio Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 1:42 PM

Thank you so much Tio, that was such a nice review that I don't even know what to say 😊 I'm so happy that you enjoyed my book and that you found something important in it. I'm so happy that you could feel my growth as a human- that was something I hoped to achieve in this book, but was difficult because there are so many stories, people, and so many things happening. Thank you for all your kind words and for the huge amount of support you've given to me and this book over many many years.

Sorry if I made you feel like you lived in a cave 😬 But you were actually doing much more important things than me in that "cave". You were growing your brain and making the important and inspiring content that brought me to you 😊 And this in turn grew my brain and the brains of many others 🙂
Thank you for your contribution to this book- the design, the emotional support, and even the content. Without you, this book would not have been the same (and neither would I 😉) 🙂

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in reply to Sasha Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 5:54 PM

I already feel like living in a cave, lol 😄 Maybe reading your book will inspire me to go out more often 😁

> But you were actually doing much more important things than me in that "cave". You were growing your brain and making the important and inspiring content that brought me to you 😊 And this in turn grew my brain and the brains of many others 🙂

This is so true, Tio might be physically in a cave but he travels around the whole damn universe with his mind, haha 😂

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in reply to Rokosun Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 7:54 PM

This is so true, Tio might be physically in a cave but he travels around the whole damn universe with his mind, haha 😂

hhahahaha thank you that made me feel a little bit better :)

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Sasha

in reply to Rokosun Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 8:49 PM

haha yes absolutely true about Tio mind-traveling the universe 😄 (and taking some of us along 😊)

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in reply to Tio Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 5:44 PM

Man I should try to grab this book as soon as possible, this is gonna be an exciting read!

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in reply to Rokosun Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 5:45 PM

BTW, noticed a few typos in your post, just letting you know:

> because it is inane in a few years time

I think you meant to say "insane" here.

> the begging bun (prologue) that

Did you meant to say "beginning bun" here?

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in reply to Rokosun Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 8:21 PM

hahaha shit correcting now thanks

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