Coen Wubbels and I left the rat race in 2003, bought an antique Land Cruiser and drove from the Netherlands to Vietnam. That took 3.5 years. By then we were addicted to our freewheeling life and have been driving around the world ever since. We enjoyed the vegetarian lifestyle in India and the plant-based diets of South East Asia. After six years of eating the meat-heavy dishes that characterize South America, we returned to a plant-based diet for health, environmental and animal-welfare reasons.