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:

Eder from Spain, met in Mexico City

Ignacio (Nacho) a Mexican IT specialist in Santiago

Branden, a writer and book worm from Cape Town

Warren, my playa buddy

Fellow traveller Robin

Stefano, a buddy in Melbourne

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

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

Police Otter Michael, Auckland

Fellow Madonna fan Johann from Peru, living in seattle

King Leon, from Hong Kong

Will, my host and friend in Melbourne

Alan, from Mexico City

Pablo, a musician in Buenos Aires

Marcello from Tigre, Argentina

Guilherme, my host in Sao Paulo

Tony, Italian designer in Hong Kong

Antonio, Nacho’s friend in Mexico City

Geraldo from Mexico City

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

Oliver, my roof top bar buddy in Hong Kong

Jaime, a Chilean diplomat

Danilo, from Brazil, met in Uruguat

Party animal Clinty, in Auckland

Sammy, Melbourne drinking buddy

Connor, from London, whom I met in Hong Kong

Xavier, drinking buddy in BsAs

Matias, allrounder and musician from Buenos Aires

Aldo, Ignacios boyfriend from Santiago

Mike from San Francisco

Ron from Tel Aviv

Dario, from Buenos Aires

Steven, a Brit-gone-Aussie, Melbourne

Fernando, my favorite bar keeper in Hong Kong

Joel from Montreal, at the Tam Tam

Tim, playa buddy

Jerome, Montreal party animal

Jonathan from Santiago

Carlo, hair dresser in Cape Town

André, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Fabuouls Josée from Montreal

Jessica, in Melbourne

Guy, a lightning designer in Cape Town

Montreal Brandon, my crazy ass buddy

Amazing Mallory at the Taj

Osamu, a designer in Melbourne

Gonzales, from Santiago

Guilherme from Sao Paulo

Sara, one of my Melbourne hosts

Craig from Seattle

Corey & Kylie, from Melbourne

Marco, my Google maps expert from San Francisco

Handsome Mayo, Santiago

Greg from Montreal, who knows the best places to party

Ari, whom we met in India

Hannes from South Africa

Ryan from Montreal

Joe, my favourite painter, from Seattle

Fabio, whom I met at the Sao Paulo Film Festival

Fabulous Ari, and English teacher in Buenos Aires

Jarrel from Montreal

Manav, my Howell’s drinking buddy

Serdar, a curator in Istanbul

Artur from Mexico whom I ment in Varanasi

Beautiful May from Chile

Harvey, my host in Ponsonby, Auckland

Raffi from Montreal

AJ and Daniel, English teachers in Santiago

Canadian Brandon, Joe’s cousin from Vancouver

A Schlumpf in Tel Aviv

Gorgeous Georgios, from Chicago, met in Hong Kong

Fabulous Cate, an Australian diplomat

Michael, my Melbourne buddy

Sawyer, the playa mama

Liran from Tel Aviv

Ardarsh, a banker in Hong Kong

Ceres, a fellow traveller in India

Colin from Shandong MaMa, with Mark

Daniel from Mexico City

Egnaldo, my host in Sao Paulo

Daniel, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Paul, student of Japanese, Tokyo

Olivier, flight attendant for Air Canada

Nathan, English teacher in Moscow

Timothy from San Diego

Marco from Mexico City

Joe from Vancouver

Kurt from Cape town

Javo from Buenos Aires

Russ from Seattle

Wayne from Sydney, Australia’s biggest Madonna fan

My Ramen buddy Robert, Seattle

Guilherme from BsAs, now in san Francisco

Kieran, a Japanese teacher in Melbourne

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

Angus, from Sydney

Mike from Taipei, met in Buenos Aires

Matt, my Burning Man camp mate

Steph, working at Radio Canada, Montreal

Eduardo from Santiago

Fabio, a Braxilian from Montreal

Wim, Dutch-American sailor and nurse, Seattle

Fernando from Buenos Aires

Kate, the best, from Melbourne

John, my Burning Man camp mate

Amazing Mioh, UN diplomat in Bangkok

Craig, our Burning Man Tree house architect

David from Atlanta, met in BsAs

Leonie, New Zealand party animal

Gary from Ireland, whom I met in Melbourne

Gustavo, Mr Hermes in BsAs

Francois, Air Transat flight attendend and friend form Montreal

Anton, Cape Town buddy

Lucas from Porto Allegre

Roberto from Sao Paulo

Amazing Nina, Auckland

Sebastian, a casting director and my Chilean guide, Santiago

Sammy, my Hong Kong photographer

Alvaro, who showed me Santiago

Artur, a Polish roof top bar expert in Melbourne

Mateus, my host in Rio

Mau, my host from Rio

Cihan, in Istanbul

Arié, the Hug Train from Montreal

Jen at Burning Man

Jaime, a journalist and PR manager in Santiago

Sebastian, Chilean from Vancouver

Arno from Cape Town

Lovely Belinda from New Zealand

Rodolfo, one of my hosts in Mexico City

Federico, Tour guide and German student form BsAs

Amazing Hannah, with Mayo

Sophia, an English teacher in Santiago

Jimena, the best Mexico City guide

Andrew from Buenos Aires

Guido, my Santiago guide

Gustavo from Chile

Yasar, my host in Istanbul

Jessica, an english teacher in Santiago (and Daniel)

Sunny Chris from Baltimore, English teacher in Santiago

Lily, my host in Seattle

Maxi from Buenos Aires

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!