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:

Joel from Montreal, at the Tam Tam

Marcello from Tigre, Argentina

Anton, Cape Town buddy

Ceres, a fellow traveller in India

Party animal Clinty, in Auckland

Serdar, a curator in Istanbul

Greg from Montreal, who knows the best places to party

Amazing Mallory at the Taj

Arno from Cape Town

Roberto from Sao Paulo

Marco, my Google maps expert from San Francisco

Joe, my favourite painter, from Seattle

Steph, working at Radio Canada, Montreal

David from Atlanta, met in BsAs

Andrew from Buenos Aires

Alan, from Mexico City

Connor, from London, whom I met in Hong Kong

Kieran, a Japanese teacher in Melbourne

Javo from Buenos Aires

Russ from Seattle

Stefano, a buddy in Melbourne

Leonie, New Zealand party animal

Sammy, Melbourne drinking buddy

Xavier, drinking buddy in BsAs

André, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Corey & Kylie, from Melbourne

Osamu, a designer in Melbourne

Fernando, my favorite bar keeper in Hong Kong

Lily, my host in Seattle

Raffi from Montreal

Hannes from South Africa

Sawyer, the playa mama

Eder from Spain, met in Mexico City

Angus, from Sydney

Sophia, an English teacher in Santiago

Francois, Air Transat flight attendend and friend form Montreal

Kate, the best, from Melbourne

Ignacio (Nacho) a Mexican IT specialist in Santiago

Canadian Brandon, Joe’s cousin from Vancouver

Danilo, from Brazil, met in Uruguat

Sebastian, a casting director and my Chilean guide, Santiago

Gary from Ireland, whom I met in Melbourne

Gustavo, Mr Hermes in BsAs

Fernando from Buenos Aires

Ron from Tel Aviv

Wim, Dutch-American sailor and nurse, Seattle

Marco from Mexico City

Sammy, my Hong Kong photographer

Dario, from Buenos Aires

Guilherme from BsAs, now in san Francisco

Mau, my host from Rio

Jimena, the best Mexico City guide

Colin from Shandong MaMa, with Mark

Pablo, a musician in Buenos Aires

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

Joe from Vancouver

Nathan, English teacher in Moscow

Jerome, Montreal party animal

Sara, one of my Melbourne hosts

Alvaro, who showed me Santiago

Tim, playa buddy

Daniel from Mexico City

Liran from Tel Aviv

Ryan from Montreal

Jaime, a Chilean diplomat

Fabulous Ari, and English teacher in Buenos Aires

Harvey, my host in Ponsonby, Auckland

Olivier, flight attendant for Air Canada

Arié, the Hug Train from Montreal

Jarrel from Montreal

Amazing Mioh, UN diplomat in Bangkok

Geraldo from Mexico City

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

Sunny Chris from Baltimore, English teacher in Santiago

Branden, a writer and book worm from Cape Town

Gustavo from Chile

Antonio, Nacho’s friend in Mexico City

Federico, Tour guide and German student form BsAs

Fellow traveller Robin

Fabio, whom I met at the Sao Paulo Film Festival

Handsome Mayo, Santiago

King Leon, from Hong Kong

Jessica, an english teacher in Santiago (and Daniel)

Kurt from Cape town

Warren, my playa buddy

AJ and Daniel, English teachers in Santiago

Guido, my Santiago guide

Will, my host and friend in Melbourne

Rodolfo, one of my hosts in Mexico City

Jonathan from Santiago

Timothy from San Diego

Manav, my Howell’s drinking buddy

Police Otter Michael, Auckland

Jaime, a journalist and PR manager in Santiago

Tony, Italian designer in Hong Kong

Craig from Seattle

Guy, a lightning designer in Cape Town

Mike from San Francisco

A Schlumpf in Tel Aviv

Paul, student of Japanese, Tokyo

Mike from Taipei, met in Buenos Aires

Ardarsh, a banker in Hong Kong

Guilherme from Sao Paulo

Fellow Madonna fan Johann from Peru, living in seattle

Aldo, Ignacios boyfriend from Santiago

Daniel, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Fabulous Cate, an Australian diplomat

John, my Burning Man camp mate

Matt, my Burning Man camp mate

Yasar, my host in Istanbul

Beautiful May from Chile

Mateus, my host in Rio

Artur, a Polish roof top bar expert in Melbourne

Oliver, my roof top bar buddy in Hong Kong

Lovely Belinda from New Zealand

Maxi from Buenos Aires

Fabuouls Josée from Montreal

Matias, allrounder and musician from Buenos Aires

Artur from Mexico whom I ment in Varanasi

Amazing Nina, Auckland

Amazing Hannah, with Mayo

Fabio, a Braxilian from Montreal

Wayne from Sydney, Australia’s biggest Madonna fan

Sebastian, Chilean from Vancouver

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

Lucas from Porto Allegre

Craig, our Burning Man Tree house architect

Gorgeous Georgios, from Chicago, met in Hong Kong

Guilherme, my host in Sao Paulo

Egnaldo, my host in Sao Paulo

Eduardo from Santiago

Cihan, in Istanbul

Jessica, in Melbourne

Gonzales, from Santiago

Carlo, hair dresser in Cape Town

Michael, my Melbourne buddy

My Ramen buddy Robert, Seattle

Ari, whom we met in India

Steven, a Brit-gone-Aussie, Melbourne

Jen at Burning Man

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

Montreal Brandon, my crazy ass buddy

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!