<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RoamTurtle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Roamturtle]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:03:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.roamturtle.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Retro Sunday]]></title><description><![CDATA[One day back in 2009, I had nowhere to stay in Chamonix. Someone had mentioned an American guy with rooms. I asked a lift guy if he knew some cheap places. He gave me a phone number to Gary. I called and was welcomed. Took the bus to Argentière, walked with my stuff up there the same evening, and opened the door to Gary’s house.   The dinner was in its peak, laughters, great smell of food and wine and cheese on the table. His guests were some of my skibum heroes, whereof Glen Plake was one of...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/retro-sunday</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8684b2360e55e6c703cdf2</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:42:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_100a5125ea1f46aca882cbc8c6d039aa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_988,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meeting Spielberg]]></title><description><![CDATA[That time I went to Los Angeles to intern… without an internship. When I was studying media production, we had to find an internship. Most of my classmates chose something safe and local. I did the opposite. I went to the other side of the world, without an internship. I had borrowed money for the trip, had one phone number for a Swedish contact, and absolutely no idea how any of it was going to work out. My time in LA was far from glamorous. I was staying in a completely empty apartment with...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/meeting-spielberg</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a85d121dc2d5ce90c98c1b2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_d9fd1434030140208c25dcdd116f5d5e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_585,h_409,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's next?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Honoured to be onboard this beauty today. Brought back to mint condition by Martin and Ellen. Sailing under the Norwegian flag. Hoping for to find someone to take on the stewardship for Sverige S3 in Sweden.  Martin said it all today on our way to Marstrand and the 12-metre World Championship. Check out more on our web: BringSverigeHome.com]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/who-s-next</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a828c920d24f7afd0f47689</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:29:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_93c866528ee44dd28e00ba8421335d33~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_926,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[DJ Usain Bolt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Diamond League 2010. Usain Bolt competing at the Stockholm Stadion. Very cool to see live. But joining him with my camera when he was DJ:ing live at Hotel Anglais after the race, felt even beyond cool. How did it even happen? Unreal at first, but he was just having a swell time like everybody else that night. Kind, relaxed, happy. I didn’t want to post this video back then. It felt too private and I didn’t want to look like I was star struck haha. Now with some distance to the whole thing, I...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/dj-usain-bolt</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a80dd3a2dc4e025af55d55e</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_67180129a156415d890bb65cb6f56cf6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_881,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aurora P]]></title><description><![CDATA[That time I went sailing with Björn and we slept out in the Stockholm archipelago, I woke up, as you sometimes do, with the urge to pee. Since there's no toilet onboard, I had to make my way onto land. Squatting there under the night sky, I looked over at the boat and saw something that looked like the aurora. But this far south? I hurried to make my way back onboard, grabbed my camera and took a long exposure to see if the green light I thought I saw was actually there. Yup. It was. So I...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/aurora</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7fbeac40f3daf10ba0ecce</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_f737b17cea1945a4a01fda029d083392~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_667,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring Sverige Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[This story is happening right now. Worth sharing because it touches on how strong the drive is for some people to live their dreams. Earlier this summer I went to a marina in Norway and saw the iconic sail racer Sverige S3 by the pier. My dear ex, Hanne, and her partner had sent an image of it because it was lying there next to their boat. That 12-metre yacht was built 50 years ago. It was all over the media, and it was one of Sweden’s most recognized sailboats. The story covers one of...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/bring-sverige-home</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7e80ab9eafd9eb8e5b3b4a</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_7f746a706ac046669e61c1de166b7b7c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give Tees a chance]]></title><description><![CDATA[That Beach Party trip to Costa Rica in 2016 is packed with stories. On so many levels. I remember I ripped one of my precious T-shirts, and I also remember the t-shirt that the coconut guy had when we stopped because Jana suddenly had some severe cravings for coconut water. We had a nice chat with him. I asked what he studied at the university haha…it was his daughter’s tee. Anyway, since we were on a mission for the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals we talked a lot about reusing,...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/give-tees-a-chance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7cd8532ca7f56c718086b7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:44:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_4779404aa49f4d299a5ecb9254051428~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_561,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expedition India 4:4]]></title><description><![CDATA[Check out the reel on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1025244720392190 Check out Jana's "Scrapbook Video"]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/expedition-india-4-4</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7b500ff53a5f7f65d52fac</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:41:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_ef885b676e12422a9a380afc94e75da4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eddy, the hero]]></title><description><![CDATA[More about Eddy and Eva's work with schools It started in 2011. This young guy, Eddy Balina from Uganda, reached out to us at the Non-Violence Project Foundation, NVP.Think he was some 20+ years old, and he had found us on the internet. He asked if he could use our educational program Schools For Peace, and run it at his former high school in Jinja. We sent him the Teacher’s Manual and the Student Booklets, and he managed to get it all printed somehow, and the principal of the school let him...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/eddy-the-hero</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7aaaf8bb2b410376bb184d</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:22:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_6b4513979cd741ffabe8e8dac099ebbe~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_683,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expedition India 3:4]]></title><description><![CDATA[Check out the story in the reel here:  https://www.facebook.com/reel/2346438729222005]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/expedition-india-3-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a793cf67e238b0b8ae4ebb5</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:05:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_84dfff0ab08544df921285b6d7cb1a88~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_922,h_915,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[In love with great ideas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Falling in love with great ideas is a significant story of my life. The list is embarrassingly long, to be honest. The expression “love is blind” is the perfect description of how I feel when an idea hits the mind. Wherever it comes from. Problems and everyday dilemmas fade out in an instant, or disappear entirely by some kind of undefined magic. At least for a while. Yes, reality always bites back sooner or later, and that is part of the story as well. Not as fun to think about, but a very...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/in-love-with-great-ideas</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a77dce97e238b0b8ae1f1bc</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_082026652b49467c922c010a3057aa75~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expedition India 2:4]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before we even reached the start line, we still had one final journey ahead of us. The last stretch from Sonamarg to Leh was only about 300 km, but despite the relatively short distance, it took us around fifteen hours. We drove along narrow gravel roads carved into steep mountainsides, with wrecked cars lying hundreds of meters below. I remember sitting in the back of our van, genuinely scared, watching the check engine light flash while trusting my life to a young Indian driver who seemed...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/expedition-india-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a77e3de7e238b0b8ae2006c</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_d7976f175b44493a967237715eee883e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_667,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expedition India 1:4]]></title><description><![CDATA[How did you start shooting adventure races? I get that question quite a lot.   My first race was in 2016, when my friend Mårten told me that he and his team competed in adventure races. He asked if I could imagine joining them as their photographer for a race in Jammu &#38; Kashmir, India.   My answer was without a doubt.   He explained that I’d photograph the race, stay comfortably in a hotel at night, and spend the days shooting and posting updates on social media.   Since the race started in...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/expedition-india</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a742086c34aae87f0dd6d31</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_07b966032b2e4064b083d448fbf8c41d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_667,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ocean Artivism]]></title><description><![CDATA[28-year-old graffiti artist Julia Maldonado, from the island of Cozumel in the Gulf of Mexico, studied in Stockholm. I had seen her art somewhere and just instantly knew she would be the perfect artist for a wild idea. We met, and my boat’s hull was offered to her as a canvas – with the condition to paint it only with a new toxic-free boat coating, available in only three colors: black, grey and orange. The reason was the climate statement sailing project 100% Sun Wind Water that started...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/ocean-artivism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7250494c43b9b2d4c9159d</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:02:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_4b9824eb14554e39b7a69500f745add3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_666,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Northern Lights ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2014, I met another photographer during a photoshoot in northern Sweden, where I was living at the time. We both really wanted to see and shoot the northern lights. So we booked a four-day trip to Tromsø, in the far north of Norway. It was only 11 years ago, but back then photographing the aurora wasn't as simple as pointing your iPhone at the sky. You needed a tripod, long exposures, patience... and quite a bit of luck. And aurora forecasts weren't a thing back then either. But as it...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/magic-nordic-light</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a72310fa6b03c80faf148b2</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:51:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_1697e2f1b34b45d8b64b122c302f518d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_683,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure Race Spain ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the midst of the Corona, I sent a text to Bjorn: Wanna be my driver at an Adventure Race in Coruña? This was my 3rd Adventure Race. My role was to follow and capture the Swedish team, with Jonas, Mårten, Marie and Erik. Following a team may sound easy, but it sure isn’t. They are out in the wild – biking, trekking and paddling. As a photographer, I am bound to use a car and whatever roads are close enough to their trails. I have to figure out (with the help of their tracker) when my team...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/adventure-race-spain</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7051753e0c16484ffb6034</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_e011d49f167043e78636ced6309e69a9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_738,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beach Party Agenda]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back in 2015 I read the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals on the day it was published. General Secretary Ban Ki-moon stated it to be “Humanity’s most important to-do-list”. A document with 17 goals, 169 sub-goals, 11.000 words, and some 100.000+ characters. I bet I still am one of the very few people on the planet who actually read all of them. After that, I realized that people won't read them, so I rewrote the 17 goals into “tweets” with 140, 500, and 1000 characters and...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/beach-party-agenda</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f1dce16cff318c1847c34</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_25026172ce3b4c34a48c726ed51c1cbc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_665,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's do it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi, we are Jana and Bjorn. We've been friends for 18 years. The last ten, we have worked and traveled together. Seems like we will continue to do so for many more. Collecting stories. Jana is a photographer and videographer with tons of adventures behind her. Bjorn is a creative producer and writer with even more tons in his bag. We’ve just been roaming around on a sailboat up in Sweden and decided to share random and true stories from here and there. For no reason, actually. We nailed and...]]></description><link>https://www.roamturtle.com/post/post-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6f07073e0c16484ff82213</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0684a1_1c2620fc40464d9797f087e71e2206df~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bjorn Bertoft</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>