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:

Carlo, hair dresser in Cape Town

Pablo, a musician in Buenos Aires

Wim, Dutch-American sailor and nurse, Seattle

Kate, the best, from Melbourne

Paul, student of Japanese, Tokyo

Fabulous Ari, and English teacher in Buenos Aires

Ron from Tel Aviv

Joe from Vancouver

Hannes from South Africa

Angus, from Sydney

Mau, my host from Rio

Mike from Taipei, met in Buenos Aires

Raffi from Montreal

Amazing Mioh, UN diplomat in Bangkok

Kieran, a Japanese teacher in Melbourne

Wayne from Sydney, Australia’s biggest Madonna fan

Mike from San Francisco

Sebastian, a casting director and my Chilean guide, Santiago

Liran from Tel Aviv

Party animal Clinty, in Auckland

Anton, Cape Town buddy

Canadian Brandon, Joe’s cousin from Vancouver

Ardarsh, a banker in Hong Kong

Rodolfo, one of my hosts in Mexico City

Jonathan from Santiago

Xavier, drinking buddy in BsAs

Sammy, Melbourne drinking buddy

Oliver, my roof top bar buddy in Hong Kong

Guy, a lightning designer in Cape Town

Corey & Kylie, from Melbourne

Amazing Nina, Auckland

AJ and Daniel, English teachers in Santiago

Andrew from Buenos Aires

Ryan from Montreal

Jaime, a Chilean diplomat

Sammy, my Hong Kong photographer

Antonio, Nacho’s friend in Mexico City

Sebastian, Chilean from Vancouver

André, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Will, my host and friend in Melbourne

Gorgeous Georgios, from Chicago, met in Hong Kong

Harvey, my host in Ponsonby, Auckland

Sophia, an English teacher in Santiago

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

Guilherme from Sao Paulo

Fabuouls Josée from Montreal

Olivier, flight attendant for Air Canada

Arno from Cape Town

Tim, playa buddy

Alan, from Mexico City

Nathan, English teacher in Moscow

Cihan, in Istanbul

Amazing Hannah, with Mayo

Joe, my favourite painter, from Seattle

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

Federico, Tour guide and German student form BsAs

Amazing Mallory at the Taj

Lovely Belinda from New Zealand

Eduardo from Santiago

Handsome Mayo, Santiago

Marco from Mexico City

Ceres, a fellow traveller in India

A Schlumpf in Tel Aviv

Tony, Italian designer in Hong Kong

Beautiful May from Chile

Jaime, a journalist and PR manager in Santiago

Branden, a writer and book worm from Cape Town

Eder from Spain, met in Mexico City

Fabulous Cate, an Australian diplomat

Greg from Montreal, who knows the best places to party

Warren, my playa buddy

Marco, my Google maps expert from San Francisco

Jen at Burning Man

Montreal Brandon, my crazy ass buddy

Steph, working at Radio Canada, Montreal

Leonie, New Zealand party animal

Francois, Air Transat flight attendend and friend form Montreal

Geraldo from Mexico City

Roberto from Sao Paulo

Egnaldo, my host in Sao Paulo

John, my Burning Man camp mate

Artur, a Polish roof top bar expert in Melbourne

Michael, my Melbourne buddy

Gustavo, Mr Hermes in BsAs

Joel from Montreal, at the Tam Tam

Steven, a Brit-gone-Aussie, Melbourne

Dario, from Buenos Aires

Gustavo from Chile

My Ramen buddy Robert, Seattle

Mateus, my host in Rio

Fabio, a Braxilian from Montreal

Alvaro, who showed me Santiago

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

Jessica, in Melbourne

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

Javo from Buenos Aires

Jimena, the best Mexico City guide

David from Atlanta, met in BsAs

Jerome, Montreal party animal

King Leon, from Hong Kong

Marcello from Tigre, Argentina

Russ from Seattle

Ignacio (Nacho) a Mexican IT specialist in Santiago

Arié, the Hug Train from Montreal

Stefano, a buddy in Melbourne

Jessica, an english teacher in Santiago (and Daniel)

Matias, allrounder and musician from Buenos Aires

Craig, our Burning Man Tree house architect

Daniel, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Guilherme, my host in Sao Paulo

Sara, one of my Melbourne hosts

Connor, from London, whom I met in Hong Kong

Guilherme from BsAs, now in san Francisco

Danilo, from Brazil, met in Uruguat

Artur from Mexico whom I ment in Varanasi

Gonzales, from Santiago

Sunny Chris from Baltimore, English teacher in Santiago

Colin from Shandong MaMa, with Mark

Matt, my Burning Man camp mate

Fellow Madonna fan Johann from Peru, living in seattle

Jarrel from Montreal

Police Otter Michael, Auckland

Timothy from San Diego

Craig from Seattle

Fernando from Buenos Aires

Kurt from Cape town

Aldo, Ignacios boyfriend from Santiago

Sawyer, the playa mama

Maxi from Buenos Aires

Guido, my Santiago guide

Lily, my host in Seattle

Yasar, my host in Istanbul

Serdar, a curator in Istanbul

Manav, my Howell’s drinking buddy

Ari, whom we met in India

Fellow traveller Robin

Lucas from Porto Allegre

Gary from Ireland, whom I met in Melbourne

Daniel from Mexico City

Fabio, whom I met at the Sao Paulo Film Festival

Osamu, a designer in Melbourne

Fernando, my favorite bar keeper in Hong Kong

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!