Lotte is a sports addict and loves trying, learning and experiencing new things. Always, she creates opportunities and grasps opportunities with both hands. She is a fan of exploring new places and meeting new people from diverse backgrounds. She hugely enjoys all her senses and is always curious to touch, taste, smell, watch and listen to something unknown. Being a food lover, she’s keen to ‘eat it all and burn it all’. Lotte completed a Bachelor in Business, a Master in Finance and another Master in Economics, both with distinction. She worked for four years full-time at KPMG China in Hong Kong; 2.5 years as a consultant in Advisory and 1.5 year in Corporate Social Responsibility and worked as a model part-time.

Leonie graduated with distinction from the Design Academy Eindhoven and worked for nine years in Amsterdam as an interior and product designer and project manager for Tjep.,Vandaag is Morgen and Studio Molen. Projects varied from Schiphol Airport, Heineken The City, to several restaurants, museums and store interiors. Besides these projects, Leonie also runs her own design studio and works on fine art projects (www.leoniejanssen.nl) and applies her amazing creativity every day if her life. Leonie loves living in Amsterdam and enjoys its culture, museums and festivals. Even more important are her friends there with whom she enjoys cooking and playing sports.

In February 2015 we quit our jobs to explore our planet. We did not prepare for this trip, we did not set a budget, we did not have a plan where to go, nor for how long. We only planned to start with New Zealand and Australia.

In New Zealand, we bought a camper to enjoy the greatest amount of freedom and independency. We called him UZ, derived from Isuzu and standing for Unsaturated Zone, since we painted it black and white inside and out. In Chile we bought another camper to tour through South America. We gave it our signature style and named it UZ2. In other countries, we found other ways of transport.