We are Marc & Linda.

Two Swiss. Seven children between us. Nearly sixty years of combined life in one of the most comfortable countries on earth. And one day, a decision that nobody around us understood.

Marc

Three master’s degrees and a doctorate in exercise physiology. Affiliated researcher at the University of Lausanne. Ultramarathon runner β€” 10 to 15 hours of training per week across trails, swimming, and cycling. Speaks French, English, Russian, and increasingly passable Spanish.

Currently building online education platforms, preparing for the ACSM-EP certification, and trying to convince his body that altitude in Colorado is “character building.”

Linda

A bachelor’s and master’s in English, earned while teaching and raising seven children. Ten years managing luxury construction projects. Now a literary translator across three languages β€” French, English, and Russian.

Launching her translation career in New York starting April 2026. The kind of person who reads Dostoevsky on the subway and doesn’t think that’s unusual.

The plan

We left Switzerland in 2024. We’re currently based in Colorado. Starting 2027, we begin traveling β€” six months a year at first, more after Marc gets his U.S. citizenship. South America first (Colombia, Argentina, Peru), then Southeast Asia, then wherever the roads lead.

We work online. We write. We run. We translate. And we document the whole thing here.

Pinterlude is a portmanteau: a pin dropped between two lives, an interlude that might just last twenty years.

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