I can retrace my journey on every map, or in my mind.

But I can also retrace it with the people I have met along the way, the friends I have made.

It is amazing to see how many people I have met, and how much they contributed to shape this journey.

In the end, it didn’t matter where I went, I would meet amazing people all over. And even if I was sad of having to leave after four weeks, I also was curious of the next stop, and the people I would meet there.

Thank you for sharing your tim with me, for taking me along to parties and events, for showing me your favorite spots around town, for presenting me your friends.

It’s been such an amazing ride with you.

But it’s also sad to know that there was so much more out there, people who I did not manage to meet up with, or only saw once… all the potential friendships that could have developed…

In the end, I guess, this journey is less about the places and cities I visited.

It’s about you guys.

So here’s a different map of the world, the story of my journey:

Police Otter Michael, Auckland

Daniel, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Harvey, my host in Ponsonby, Auckland

Wayne from Sydney, Australia’s biggest Madonna fan

Andres, my machine-gun Spanish teacher and DJ from Buenos Aires

Mike from San Francisco

Antonio, Nacho’s friend in Mexico City

Sara, one of my Melbourne hosts

Ardarsh, a banker in Hong Kong

Greg from Montreal, who knows the best places to party

Corey & Kylie, from Melbourne

Gustavo from Chile

Mau, my host from Rio

Paul, student of Japanese, Tokyo

Ryan from Montreal

Osamu, a designer in Melbourne

Danilo, from Brazil, met in Uruguat

Ron from Tel Aviv

Henri, Cathay Pacific flight attendant and my host in Hong Kong

Andrew, whom I met at a Madonna party at Burning Man

Mateus, my host in Rio

Steven, a Brit-gone-Aussie, Melbourne

Fabio, whom I met at the Sao Paulo Film Festival

Canadian Brandon, Joe’s cousin from Vancouver

Artur from Mexico whom I ment in Varanasi

Fabio, a Braxilian from Montreal

Montreal Brandon, my crazy ass buddy

Oliver, my roof top bar buddy in Hong Kong

Michael, my Melbourne buddy

Matias, allrounder and musician from Buenos Aires

Handsome Mayo, Santiago

Marco from Mexico City

Lovely Belinda from New Zealand

Craig from Seattle

Jessica, an english teacher in Santiago (and Daniel)

Fabulous Ari, and English teacher in Buenos Aires

Manav, my Howell’s drinking buddy

Anton, Cape Town buddy

Joel from Montreal, at the Tam Tam

Colin from Shandong MaMa, with Mark

Pablo, a musician in Buenos Aires

Stefano, a buddy in Melbourne

Sawyer, the playa mama

Kurt from Cape town

Wim, Dutch-American sailor and nurse, Seattle

Angus, from Sydney

Fellow Madonna fan Johann from Peru, living in seattle

Liran from Tel Aviv

AJ and Daniel, English teachers in Santiago

Rodolfo, one of my hosts in Mexico City

Fabuouls Josée from Montreal

Party animal Clinty, in Auckland

King Leon, from Hong Kong

A Schlumpf in Tel Aviv

Alvaro, who showed me Santiago

Connor, from London, whom I met in Hong Kong

Serdar, a curator in Istanbul

Sammy, Melbourne drinking buddy

Joe from Vancouver

Geraldo from Mexico City

Steph, working at Radio Canada, Montreal

Sebastian, a casting director and my Chilean guide, Santiago

André, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Jimena, the best Mexico City guide

Guilherme from BsAs, now in san Francisco

Arié, the Hug Train from Montreal

Arno from Cape Town

Carlo, hair dresser in Cape Town

Fernando from Buenos Aires

Gustavo, Mr Hermes in BsAs

Jen at Burning Man

Javo from Buenos Aires

Leonie, New Zealand party animal

Eder from Spain, met in Mexico City

Nathan, English teacher in Moscow

Matt, my Burning Man camp mate

Mike from Taipei, met in Buenos Aires

Alan, from Mexico City

Marcello from Tigre, Argentina

Lily, my host in Seattle

Kate, the best, from Melbourne

Sunny Chris from Baltimore, English teacher in Santiago

Guilherme, my host in Sao Paulo

Tony, Italian designer in Hong Kong

Branden, a writer and book worm from Cape Town

Amazing Mallory at the Taj

Francois, Air Transat flight attendend and friend form Montreal

Amazing Mioh, UN diplomat in Bangkok

Hannes from South Africa

Sammy, my Hong Kong photographer

Tim, playa buddy

Yasar, my host in Istanbul

Jarrel from Montreal

Fabulous Cate, an Australian diplomat

Raffi from Montreal

Dario, from Buenos Aires

Jessica, in Melbourne

Ignacio (Nacho) a Mexican IT specialist in Santiago

Joe, my favourite painter, from Seattle

Sophia, an English teacher in Santiago

Ari, whom we met in India

Federico, Tour guide and German student form BsAs

Timothy from San Diego

Jonathan from Santiago

Russ from Seattle

Gorgeous Georgios, from Chicago, met in Hong Kong

Gary from Ireland, whom I met in Melbourne

Beautiful May from Chile

Amazing Hannah, with Mayo

John, my Burning Man camp mate

Olivier, flight attendant for Air Canada

Warren, my playa buddy

Egnaldo, my host in Sao Paulo

Amazing Nina, Auckland

Guilherme from Sao Paulo

Maxi from Buenos Aires

Guido, my Santiago guide

Cihan, in Istanbul

Kieran, a Japanese teacher in Melbourne

Aldo, Ignacios boyfriend from Santiago

Fellow traveller Robin

Andrew from Buenos Aires

Gonzales, from Santiago

Eduardo from Santiago

Will, my host and friend in Melbourne

David from Atlanta, met in BsAs

Sebastian, Chilean from Vancouver

Artur, a Polish roof top bar expert in Melbourne

Lucas from Porto Allegre

Fernando, my favorite bar keeper in Hong Kong

Xavier, drinking buddy in BsAs

Ceres, a fellow traveller in India

Jaime, a Chilean diplomat

Craig, our Burning Man Tree house architect

Meike Winnemuth, whom I never met, but who inspired this trip

Jerome, Montreal party animal

Daniel from Mexico City

Roberto from Sao Paulo

Marco, my Google maps expert from San Francisco

My Ramen buddy Robert, Seattle

Guy, a lightning designer in Cape Town

Jaime, a journalist and PR manager in Santiago

This gallery is far from complete (and it’s a randomised order, if you wonder 😉 ).

I am still going through it all, these are mostly the people I am in touch with through Facebook or other social apps. But I will keep on uploading more.

So if you’re not (yet) there, don’t be sad, I’m catching up. Message me!

I stole most of your pics from your Facebook accounts, they are public anyway, so you can’t complain (but if you’re unhappy with a pic, let me know and I’ll exchange…).

When I saw the progressing upload of these 150+ pictures into my blog database, and you guys appeared one by one, I just burst out into tears.

Thank you guys, to each and everyone of you.

You made my journey.

Thank you.

Keep in touch!