Born and raised
After driving people for two years, one of the most asked questions is always, what was it like to grow up in Amsterdam.
On this page I’ll tell some more about Amsterdam and about myself.
Latest posts
January 2024
January First
A new year to head into and I'm planning to do more with creativity. Earlier this year I had made a plan with someone to see who reaches 100.000 views first on YouTube. I love [...]
January 2023
Our flight back to Dallas
Calm morning We decided to use Lyft back to the airport, it would be around fifty dollar, but from the Bronx, all the way to JFK airport would take almost two hours with public transport. [...]
An award-winning restaurant
I've had one good friend since elementary, we used to see each other everyday as kids and bike around for hours and go to movies together and have sleepovers too sometimes. Today this friend was [...]
Let’s see the city
After a comfortable day resting in our comfy bed and working TV, we decided to visit the city again. It's about an hour with the subway, but even just the trip is entertaining, people staring [...]
The best bagels I’ve ever had
Today we decided to have a rest day, we found a small bagel shop nearby that closes at 11 AM already. So we had to hurry, we sleep kind of late, enjoying the high speed [...]
Large building visit
This is an iconic building and when my mother visited New York in the seventies, this was one of the first buildings she saw. When I was little she'd tell me about the enormous buildings [...]
We’re off to New York exclamation point
New York always feels crazy, it's way more busy than any other city I have ever visited and every street has its own theme. The people look worn down and so done with everything, it [...]
I was in a car today
Today I was allowed in a car again, we even visited a place called Target. Entering was easy, leaving took a bit more willpower, they have everything inside there, from groceries, to household items, to [...]
Food and photos
Everything is ready for our trip to New York, we are right in the middle of Manhattan the first few days and then a house in the Bronx for the last. I had an idea [...]
World famous toilets
Who needs a themepark when you have Buccees. Famous all over the USA when thinking about Texas, Buccees has signs near the highway hundreds of miles away from a location. Over a hundred pumps for [...]
A bucketlist thing
I got to do a bucketlist thing today, or well, I never made an official bucketlist but this is something I always wanted to do. Driving at dawn I remembered that I saw [...]
Busy day of nothing
Today was going to be a busy day, the excavator would come over to finish the road. We planned to go shopping for some winter clothes for our visit to New York and we'd have [...]
Friday and rested
It's Friday and the weekend is coming, I feel like everything that had to be done is done now. We received two trucks full of gravel, so hopefully soon we have a nice road again. [...]
A hurt toe
All I needed was my wallet from the truck. I could see the mighty Dodge Ram from my window, I left my wallet in there and was just worried I'd forget it again tomorrow morning. [...]
The shower, the sink and the duck
Today is the first time I see rain here in nearby Dallas, TX. It's 9:30 in the morning and the rain is short and heavy, rain was expected for six hours and I expected six [...]
Garbage aplenty
The sun has just come out, its about 6 in the morning and there's police everywhere on the land we live on. A low flying helicopter wakes my girlfriend up and she goes outside to [...]
It’s like a diary, I guess?
I always enjoy reading the stories my mother wrote when she traveled all around the world, seeing three countries in one week or a quiet Sunday lunch at her favourite spot in Amsterdam with one [...]