For both of us, it has been a struggle on how to write a kind of official “Farewell address” to our colleagues. After all, we do it only once in our lifetime. The result is twofold; we will have one editorial with a broad and short (admittedly very biased) history and outlook of our experience, and a second, more scientific editorial, which covers the first 10 years of our Journal of Soils and Sediments.