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:

Guy, a lightning designer in Cape Town

Leonie, New Zealand party animal

Sunny Chris from Baltimore, English teacher in Santiago

Ignacio (Nacho) a Mexican IT specialist in Santiago

Egnaldo, my host in Sao Paulo

Raffi from Montreal

Osamu, a designer in Melbourne

Mateus, my host in Rio

Kieran, a Japanese teacher in Melbourne

Will, my host and friend in Melbourne

Alvaro, who showed me Santiago

Sebastian, Chilean from Vancouver

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

Joel from Montreal, at the Tam Tam

Sara, one of my Melbourne hosts

Montreal Brandon, my crazy ass buddy

Jen at Burning Man

Ari, whom we met in India

Daniel, a fellow traveller from Montreal

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

Colin from Shandong MaMa, with Mark

Fabuouls Josée from Montreal

Liran from Tel Aviv

Sammy, Melbourne drinking buddy

Andrew from Buenos Aires

Jerome, Montreal party animal

Dario, from Buenos Aires

Lucas from Porto Allegre

Arno from Cape Town

Fabulous Ari, and English teacher in Buenos Aires

Corey & Kylie, from Melbourne

King Leon, from Hong Kong

Fernando, my favorite bar keeper in Hong Kong

Lily, my host in Seattle

Gustavo, Mr Hermes in BsAs

Nathan, English teacher in Moscow

Serdar, a curator in Istanbul

Russ from Seattle

My Ramen buddy Robert, Seattle

Paul, student of Japanese, Tokyo

Manav, my Howell’s drinking buddy

Michael, my Melbourne buddy

David from Atlanta, met in BsAs

Wim, Dutch-American sailor and nurse, Seattle

Jarrel from Montreal

Xavier, drinking buddy in BsAs

Gustavo from Chile

Roberto from Sao Paulo

Mike from Taipei, met in Buenos Aires

Wayne from Sydney, Australia’s biggest Madonna fan

Artur from Mexico whom I ment in Varanasi

Sawyer, the playa mama

Harvey, my host in Ponsonby, Auckland

Jonathan from Santiago

Ryan from Montreal

Artur, a Polish roof top bar expert in Melbourne

Geraldo from Mexico City

Gonzales, from Santiago

Marco from Mexico City

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

Guilherme from Sao Paulo

Fellow Madonna fan Johann from Peru, living in seattle

Party animal Clinty, in Auckland

Guido, my Santiago guide

Antonio, Nacho’s friend in Mexico City

Pablo, a musician in Buenos Aires

Aldo, Ignacios boyfriend from Santiago

Fernando from Buenos Aires

Sebastian, a casting director and my Chilean guide, Santiago

Craig from Seattle

Fabulous Cate, an Australian diplomat

Fabio, a Braxilian from Montreal

Anton, Cape Town buddy

Eduardo from Santiago

Connor, from London, whom I met in Hong Kong

Branden, a writer and book worm from Cape Town

Canadian Brandon, Joe’s cousin from Vancouver

Federico, Tour guide and German student form BsAs

Steph, working at Radio Canada, Montreal

Arié, the Hug Train from Montreal

Olivier, flight attendant for Air Canada

Maxi from Buenos Aires

Amazing Mallory at the Taj

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

Handsome Mayo, Santiago

Stefano, a buddy in Melbourne

Mike from San Francisco

A Schlumpf in Tel Aviv

Ceres, a fellow traveller in India

Gary from Ireland, whom I met in Melbourne

Beautiful May from Chile

Jessica, an english teacher in Santiago (and Daniel)

Ron from Tel Aviv

Joe, my favourite painter, from Seattle

Cihan, in Istanbul

Rodolfo, one of my hosts in Mexico City

Marco, my Google maps expert from San Francisco

Marcello from Tigre, Argentina

Tim, playa buddy

Kate, the best, from Melbourne

Sammy, my Hong Kong photographer

Matt, my Burning Man camp mate

Yasar, my host in Istanbul

Lovely Belinda from New Zealand

Amazing Nina, Auckland

Mau, my host from Rio

Jimena, the best Mexico City guide

Tony, Italian designer in Hong Kong

Joe from Vancouver

Jaime, a journalist and PR manager in Santiago

Alan, from Mexico City

Jessica, in Melbourne

Javo from Buenos Aires

Francois, Air Transat flight attendend and friend form Montreal

AJ and Daniel, English teachers in Santiago

Guilherme, my host in Sao Paulo

Hannes from South Africa

Amazing Mioh, UN diplomat in Bangkok

Steven, a Brit-gone-Aussie, Melbourne

Fabio, whom I met at the Sao Paulo Film Festival

Gorgeous Georgios, from Chicago, met in Hong Kong

Eder from Spain, met in Mexico City

Sophia, an English teacher in Santiago

Craig, our Burning Man Tree house architect

Kurt from Cape town

Warren, my playa buddy

Jaime, a Chilean diplomat

Danilo, from Brazil, met in Uruguat

John, my Burning Man camp mate

Greg from Montreal, who knows the best places to party

Angus, from Sydney

Fellow traveller Robin

Ardarsh, a banker in Hong Kong

Guilherme from BsAs, now in san Francisco

Police Otter Michael, Auckland

Amazing Hannah, with Mayo

Oliver, my roof top bar buddy in Hong Kong

Daniel from Mexico City

André, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Carlo, hair dresser in Cape Town

Matias, allrounder and musician from Buenos Aires

Timothy from San Diego

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!