Travel Photography, Colors of the World, 2004-2013.

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I am Manfred, I was a photographer, writer, globe-trotter. This is the fabulous trek site, travel photography from 2004 to 2013. Non-commercial use of photos is free, please link back. You can find me on Bluesky and LinkedIn these days, dont expect updates on my Facebook, I closed my Twitter. Share this site round if you like it.

'All good things they say never last, Love it is not Love until it's past'.
From: Sometimes it Snows in April - Prince.

When I went on the journey in 2004 I had a dream, that one day I would come home on a train, the day when all ends, and I would have two little boys disembarking with me, my boys. After the birth of Daniel and David in 2007 I wondered how or if the second part would ever come true. I was broke, with just 30 euros left in the bank, when I landed back in Vienna from Brazil in April 2013, but I had the coolest and saddest, most legendary Winter Chill tune in my ears, and I felt it wasn't over yet, borrowed money and hit the road with my preschoolers, back down south on the last FabTrek journey, in a VW van; It ain't over till it's over.

3 weeks Morocco and fantasia, 4 weeks Spain, and finally I found time for the grandest towns, from Sevilla, Mérida, Leon, A Coruña, to Bilbao, and many others, and we spent hours in museums, palaces, cathedrals, castles, hit the beaches during the day and tapas bars at night, my boys and I we had always been an amazing team. Around Toulouse we then got stranded, the van let us down, and it was not the first breakdown in 9 year of constant traveling, but the definite forever last one, and we hitched a ride with friends to Paris, and that was maybe just right in time for Daniel and David to see the Eiffel Tower and spend time overlooking from Sacré-Cœur the grandest city on them all. Mysteriously by train, making the dream come true on the very last day, we arrived back in Vienna in August 2013 and the FabTrek clock stopped there, forever. But then there might be a second edition, one day faraway.

202608, such a long time has passed.

It has been quiet here since 2013, when those nine years on the road came to a close and no new travel chapter followed. But that doesn't mean the journey of life stopped; it merely shifted.

Since the last update, I settled down in Morocco. I founded MSConex and generizon, met Nazha, got married, and welcomed two more amazing kids into our family. These days, we are focused on building businesses, earning a living, and doing our part to save the planet.

While travel writing was asking for commitment from the wanderer, life now is totally different, as entrepreneurship demands this relentless kind of sacrifice—living through subsequent complex challenges, daily and daily anew, never knowing what the world throws at you.

The memories of those wandering days remain and sit deep, they are vivid and defining, reflective. There is little sharing of these stories, people don’t comprehend, they also ask few questions, a smiling loneliness has me.

Oh, and in case you are wondering about the images: I’ve put the camera away. Or better, there wasn’t another camera after those events in Uruguay. I gave up writing too—no time for endeavors like these, though I had quite enjoyed both.

Oh again, yes, maybe also a comment on this strange oldtimer page layout: I started building the thisfabtrek-page with bricks and mortar, raw HTML and CSS back in 2002; it has remained a relic of early web travel writing before there was even Facebook. As you know, I am busy in a different life and have no time to migrate onto WordPress. One day, maybe…

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