We are a man traveler, the witness of this world in all its colors and his daughter in fur… the dog!
So… here’s my short story, guys!
If you will like the story, repost, please!!!!! 🙂
My name is Kris van der Valke. Hello! From 2007 until 2019 I traveled through 51 countries — almost all of Asia and part of Europe.
(Turkmenistan)
(Thailand)
(Taiwan)
(Iran)
(Qatar)
Usually I worked as a guide in Thailand on the sea in my life. (When didn’t travel)
Waves, storms, fish… islands… I feel the sea. I love the sea 🙂
I worked in Thailand in high seasons and than… traveled too much in low season as a backpacker on saved little money.
But except my usual job on the sea… Also for two years I was also a living statue — the Golden Soldier — in Hong Kong.
(Sorry for low quality. I had lost access to my previous iCloud . iCloud was stolen by one my exgirlfriend… girls!!! And I have only previews from my old old iPhone 5s from that time of life)
Maybe some of you who was in HK that time even have photos with me at Tsim Sha Tsui promenade. I was part of Hong Kong, its living street culture. And also, in my way, at the final, I joined the protest spirit as i loved HK and wished to HK to be free and independent.
In December 2019, during Christmas, I was detained by the police for my earlier participation in protests and deported from Hong Kong to Macau.
3 times I tried to go back to HK, but 3 times was kicked out from there. Macau police said that I was banned there for long long time… I went back to Thailand and continued my usual job of a tourist guide on the sea.
Just three months later, in March 2020, my parents died from Covid. I went back to home country to visit their graves.
Then life became a storm.
It was covid times and all the world was locked. I had no money and ideas how to survive. Parents were poor old persons and left me nothing except credits. Only Turkey was open that time. I’d got flight there and tried my Golden Soldier act again in Istanbul.
But I was robbed within three weeks. Criminals threatened me, and I escaped to Serbia, where I wandered half a year.
Than I moved to Montenegro. In 2021 I became a novice monk in Dajbabe Monastery in Montenegro, preparing for a monastic life. I loved this way!! 🙂
But when the war began in 2022, the monastery turned into a place of Russian nationalist hate. They hated all Ukrainans because the leader monk (Abbot Joan) was Russian and his ex also.
I could not stay there anymore.
(Montenegro, Podgorica, March 2022)
I decided to return home — to Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine. There my apartment was later hit by Russian tank fire in the first days of war as the house was just over the field from pity famous to all the world little not lucky town Bucha where Russian army did genocide of Ukrainians…
(My living complex’s damages from tanks on the first picture and my flat on the second picture… thanks to God not damaged, just windows were out from the waves of strikes. Some neighbours as you see were not so lucky like me)
I wanted to join the war, to fight for Ukraine. But when I reached the Polish–Ukrainian border, I had a supernatural feeling — like a dream or vision — that crossing would mean certain death, quick and meaningless. So I turned back. And since then, I remain in Poland.
Here I became only a bicycle courier, running like a hamster in a wheel, barely covering rent, with no time for real life.
But there was one bright gift: I took a daughter — a black Russian terrier puppy, Beatrix. She’s only one member of my family. I’m an orphan till my parents dead. And I have no other relatives. No brothers, no sisters, nobody. But Bea is my best and lovely daughter forever!!
(Bea is 2 months old, going to our home)
(And Bea is 8 months old already!!!)
Now in 2025, we are both tired of this “groundhog day.” Beatrix longs for travel, for new smells, for new friends, for mountains, seas… for interesting life. And so do I.
Our Dream
We want to buy a motorhome to live and travel in, to create a blog, to show you the world through our eyes. I am a professional traveler — and Beatrix is my loyal companion.
Old good “Dodge”. Of course it’s more than dream. Not now. Because it’s: 1. Expensive itself, 2. Expensive in service, 3. Expensive in fuel 🙁 But maybe one day… if we will be rich blogers??? But now:
Looking pretty suitable. Quite modern, strong, use not too much fuel! We keep to this option now!
But we cannot break free from poverty without help.
That’s why we ask:
“Just 1 dollar can change our destiny if we there’re legion of us!”
Why donate?
Yes, there are thousands of travelers and bloggers. But if you give even 1 dollar, you become part of our journey. Then we are not strangers anymore.
It’s like football: you can watch teams you don’t care about, or you can cheer for your own — with a scarf, with a beer, with a burning heart. Donating makes us your team, your family on the road.
Our purpose is to collect just 0.1 Bitcoin (10 000 USD) for motorhome and first year of travel life before we will be famous bloggers (I hope, I believe… will be!!!)
What you get in return
- Every donor’s name will be engraved on our motorhome.
- Every donor will be mentioned in our videos.
- The flags of the most generous nations will be painted on the motorhome, in proportion to donations.
(It’s a picture for sample, generated by Chat GPT how I see it will be!)
You will see your name, your flag, your support riding with us across mountains, seas, and deserts.
Additional. I’m a man who has well knowledge as a taveler about the most countries of Asia from Thailand to Iran and Eastern Europe (mostly Balkans). If you plan to travel somewhere, feel free to contact with me and I will consult you, sharing my knowledge of many lands!!
Join Us
We are not sick, we are not broken — but we are trapped by poverty. With your help, we can rise again. Like a bird with healed wings, and take you along with us.
Donate even 1 dollar. Change our destiny.
The ways to donate:
Bitcoin (BTC): 13sFABZperPm382vRJwHbCHFiKs3VK4Pgs
Ethereum (ETH): 0x9b27fbbd0d3a30b39f744ee75aab811ce1a340ee
USDT (TRC20): TEJRX2c5RNjKS55crgG13ehRMnqLaF3Jst
For Poland. Blik: 518037258
Revolut: https://revolut.me/kristijrb9
Me and Beatrix will never forget you. God bless you!!!
Here’s my sample of my vlog job to see how can look our future vlog. Sorry, unfortunately it’s not in English language, but you can choice automatic translate in subtitles mode. It translates well. My video is here:
My social networks:
Feel free to contact with me in Facebook. Instagram also.
All the incoming donates will be recorded on this page as we will get it.
All the expenses of using of this donates will be also recorded here.
I promise absolutely clear accounting of this our little private crowdfunding project!! 🙂
And if you can’t support us, but you like us, please repost this webpage 🙂
And at the final, here’s a little bit of my daughter Beatrix for you! Without words:
Past donates:
| Date | Name | Country | Donate | Comment (send me if your wish) |
| 27.09.2025 | Goran Stankovich | Serbia | 20 USDT | Srećno tebi i Beati |
| 29.09.2025 | John Wan | Singapore | 44 USDT | Hope your dreams come true… |
| 30.09.2025 | Anonymous | – | 15 USDT | Kris and Bea: please send us your name if you want 🙂 |
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