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:

Joe, my favourite painter, from Seattle

Branden, a writer and book worm from Cape Town

Wayne from Sydney, Australia’s biggest Madonna fan

Jonathan from Santiago

Anton, Cape Town buddy

Joel from Montreal, at the Tam Tam

Marco, my Google maps expert from San Francisco

Mau, my host from Rio

Police Otter Michael, Auckland

Eduardo from Santiago

Connor, from London, whom I met in Hong Kong

Gorgeous Georgios, from Chicago, met in Hong Kong

Wim, Dutch-American sailor and nurse, Seattle

Maxi from Buenos Aires

André, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Fabulous Cate, an Australian diplomat

Guilherme, my host in Sao Paulo

Sebastian, Chilean from Vancouver

Oliver, my roof top bar buddy in Hong Kong

Sara, one of my Melbourne hosts

Pablo, a musician in Buenos Aires

Fellow Madonna fan Johann from Peru, living in seattle

Danilo, from Brazil, met in Uruguat

Greg from Montreal, who knows the best places to party

Guilherme from BsAs, now in san Francisco

Handsome Mayo, Santiago

Sammy, Melbourne drinking buddy

Daniel from Mexico City

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

Yasar, my host in Istanbul

Canadian Brandon, Joe’s cousin from Vancouver

Federico, Tour guide and German student form BsAs

Angus, from Sydney

Andrew from Buenos Aires

Jessica, an english teacher in Santiago (and Daniel)

Marco from Mexico City

Will, my host and friend in Melbourne

Ignacio (Nacho) a Mexican IT specialist in Santiago

Arno from Cape Town

Osamu, a designer in Melbourne

Matias, allrounder and musician from Buenos Aires

Amazing Nina, Auckland

Beautiful May from Chile

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

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

Geraldo from Mexico City

Jaime, a journalist and PR manager in Santiago

Jimena, the best Mexico City guide

Lucas from Porto Allegre

Amazing Hannah, with Mayo

Tony, Italian designer in Hong Kong

Kurt from Cape town

Liran from Tel Aviv

Guido, my Santiago guide

Kate, the best, from Melbourne

Matt, my Burning Man camp mate

Alvaro, who showed me Santiago

Tim, playa buddy

Harvey, my host in Ponsonby, Auckland

Fabio, whom I met at the Sao Paulo Film Festival

Gustavo, Mr Hermes in BsAs

Steven, a Brit-gone-Aussie, Melbourne

Ryan from Montreal

Mike from San Francisco

Gonzales, from Santiago

Guilherme from Sao Paulo

Ari, whom we met in India

Jessica, in Melbourne

Sophia, an English teacher in Santiago

John, my Burning Man camp mate

Amazing Mioh, UN diplomat in Bangkok

Eder from Spain, met in Mexico City

Michael, my Melbourne buddy

Sammy, my Hong Kong photographer

Ardarsh, a banker in Hong Kong

My Ramen buddy Robert, Seattle

Fabulous Ari, and English teacher in Buenos Aires

Antonio, Nacho’s friend in Mexico City

Artur, a Polish roof top bar expert in Melbourne

Ceres, a fellow traveller in India

Mike from Taipei, met in Buenos Aires

Gustavo from Chile

Jen at Burning Man

Arié, the Hug Train from Montreal

Corey & Kylie, from Melbourne

Raffi from Montreal

Leonie, New Zealand party animal

Jerome, Montreal party animal

Amazing Mallory at the Taj

Guy, a lightning designer in Cape Town

Warren, my playa buddy

A Schlumpf in Tel Aviv

AJ and Daniel, English teachers in Santiago

Sunny Chris from Baltimore, English teacher in Santiago

Sebastian, a casting director and my Chilean guide, Santiago

Craig, our Burning Man Tree house architect

Stefano, a buddy in Melbourne

Craig from Seattle

Xavier, drinking buddy in BsAs

Rodolfo, one of my hosts in Mexico City

Fabuouls Josée from Montreal

Timothy from San Diego

Fabio, a Braxilian from Montreal

Olivier, flight attendant for Air Canada

Jarrel from Montreal

King Leon, from Hong Kong

Cihan, in Istanbul

Nathan, English teacher in Moscow

Javo from Buenos Aires

Alan, from Mexico City

Kieran, a Japanese teacher in Melbourne

Egnaldo, my host in Sao Paulo

Paul, student of Japanese, Tokyo

David from Atlanta, met in BsAs

Ron from Tel Aviv

Lily, my host in Seattle

Party animal Clinty, in Auckland

Dario, from Buenos Aires

Steph, working at Radio Canada, Montreal

Serdar, a curator in Istanbul

Fellow traveller Robin

Hannes from South Africa

Roberto from Sao Paulo

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

Montreal Brandon, my crazy ass buddy

Colin from Shandong MaMa, with Mark

Artur from Mexico whom I ment in Varanasi

Fernando, my favorite bar keeper in Hong Kong

Daniel, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Aldo, Ignacios boyfriend from Santiago

Jaime, a Chilean diplomat

Fernando from Buenos Aires

Lovely Belinda from New Zealand

Manav, my Howell’s drinking buddy

Carlo, hair dresser in Cape Town

Francois, Air Transat flight attendend and friend form Montreal

Russ from Seattle

Marcello from Tigre, Argentina

Mateus, my host in Rio

Sawyer, the playa mama

Gary from Ireland, whom I met in Melbourne

Joe from Vancouver

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!