Boarding Today!

Passionate travel, photography, digital nomads, stories and inspiration!

Welcome, wanderlust-friends! Enjoy our travel stories, sailing adventures, explorations, and insights into a location-independent lifestyle!

Recent updates from the travels and sailing:

The Last Three Days: Blue, White, and Home

April 19, 2026/by Koen Blanquart

Blue Walls and Beggars in Uniform

April 15, 2026/by Koen Blanquart

Sand, Storks, and the Road to Fes

April 14, 2026/by Koen Blanquart

Fourteen Hours to the Sahara Desert

April 13, 2026/by Koen Blanquart

Essaouira, Rain, and the Balloon Dispute

April 12, 2026/by Koen Blanquart

Ourika, or The Road That Fights Back

April 11, 2026/by Koen Blanquart

The Long Way to Marrakech

April 10, 2026/by Koen Blanquart

Postcards, boarding passes, and the joy of the slow route

January 3, 2026/by Koen Blanquart

Fog, Fjords, and a Friendly Stranger at a Viking Café.

September 12, 2025/by Koen Blanquart

Drizzle, Diamonds, and a Day That Would Not Quit

September 11, 2025/by Koen Blanquart

Glaciers, gales, and a magnificent black beach.

September 10, 2025/by Koen Blanquart

Earth, Wind, and Fire (with Cold Water)

September 9, 2025/by Koen Blanquart

On to the land of Ice and Fire

September 8, 2025/by Koen Blanquart

Rome: Walking Through History

March 29, 2025/by Koen Blanquart

Traded Sails for Saints

March 26, 2025/by Koen Blanquart

Prague in a (Sleeper) Train Ride

February 14, 2025/by Koen Blanquart

Villa Astrida

November 2, 2024/by Koen Blanquart

Gibraltar: Rock the Rock

September 17, 2024/by Koen Blanquart

Cabrera, Balearic Islands

July 31, 2023/by Koen Blanquart

Bizerte, Tunisia

June 30, 2023/by Koen Blanquart

Budapest, Hungary

February 14, 2023/by Koen Blanquart

Preparing Bagabonda Sailing Vessel

October 14, 2022/by Koen Blanquart

Lisbon

June 13, 2022/by Koen Blanquart

Dubai Frame of Mind

February 14, 2022/by Koen Blanquart
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Boarding Today: Adventure travel & Photography

Boarding Today, an initiative by Koen Blanquart, brings back experiences and images from unique journeys. In the magazine, we tell the stories of where we have been. At the same time, we seek to take you along on our next trips. The magazine groups the travel stories and the future travels, or you can start dreaming.

We love adventure travel. But staying somewhere to be part of the place is as important. A location-independent lifestyle includes the opportunity to find (temporary) bases where working and traveling is combined. Some call it workation, others say it’s holidork. We call it life.

And when we are on a journey, we like to tell you about our adventures. To get you dreaming about new locations, to make it feel you’re virtual with us. But also to understand what resonates, where we can take you in real life one day! Nature photography is best enjoyed when sharing views.

Digital Nomads

Boarding Today brings stories about Digital Nomads and Travel

We work most of the time when we’re on the road. And we are traveling often when we are doing ‘our job’. Adventure travel isn’t done at home only. Our home is where we can plug in our laptops. So we are not only living all the experiences we keep on reporting about, but it also creates a ton of insight into the Digital Nomad lifestyle. We’re happy to share these observations here with you, and in the documentary that we’re preparing.

In 2021, Koen published a management book on remote work. The Dutch version, titled “Thuisvoordeel” was published by Pelckmans Publishers, as was the French version “Bureau à portée de main“. The English (Suitcase Office) version is expected on October 24, 2022

Books by Koen Blanquart

Sailing Adventures: SV Bagabonda

Since 2022, slow travel has a new meaning for Boarding Today. Sailing Vessel Bagabonda is the way we’re discovering oceans. Follow the adventures of Bagabonda here, or on Bagabonda.com.

Latest news from Bagabonda:

SV Bagabonda in the sunrise on the ocean.
The new Dinghy on the Bagabonda

Train travel with Boarding Today

We LOVE traveling by train. In the recent past, Koen traveled by railway the Trans Siberian and Trans Mongolian Railway, rode across Vietnam and from Thailand to Singapore. Adventure travel by train is unlike any other journey. We are currently planning more train travel in Eastern Europe as well as in Africa. So stay tuned for the updates, or contact us when you’d like to join us on the next journey!
More on our Train Travel Page

Boarding Today brings Train Travel