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:

Ari, whom we met in India

Eduardo from Santiago

Arno from Cape Town

Mau, my host from Rio

Kurt from Cape town

Hannes from South Africa

David from Atlanta, met in BsAs

Nathan, English teacher in Moscow

Steven, a Brit-gone-Aussie, Melbourne

Amazing Nina, Auckland

Kieran, a Japanese teacher in Melbourne

Fernando, my favorite bar keeper in Hong Kong

Sawyer, the playa mama

Angus, from Sydney

Lucas from Porto Allegre

Amazing Hannah, with Mayo

Fabulous Cate, an Australian diplomat

Matt, my Burning Man camp mate

Federico, Tour guide and German student form BsAs

Stefano, a buddy in Melbourne

Geraldo from Mexico City

Pablo, a musician in Buenos Aires

Marcello from Tigre, Argentina

Artur, a Polish roof top bar expert in Melbourne

Aldo, Ignacios boyfriend from Santiago

Guy, a lightning designer in Cape Town

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

Leonie, New Zealand party animal

Danilo, from Brazil, met in Uruguat

Matias, allrounder and musician from Buenos Aires

Oliver, my roof top bar buddy in Hong Kong

Joe from Vancouver

Greg from Montreal, who knows the best places to party

Rodolfo, one of my hosts in Mexico City

Eder from Spain, met in Mexico City

Gustavo from Chile

Ignacio (Nacho) a Mexican IT specialist in Santiago

Branden, a writer and book worm from Cape Town

Gary from Ireland, whom I met in Melbourne

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

Mateus, my host in Rio

Jessica, in Melbourne

Cihan, in Istanbul

Steph, working at Radio Canada, Montreal

Fellow Madonna fan Johann from Peru, living in seattle

Mike from Taipei, met in Buenos Aires

Osamu, a designer in Melbourne

Lovely Belinda from New Zealand

Ryan from Montreal

Police Otter Michael, Auckland

Alan, from Mexico City

Sebastian, Chilean from Vancouver

Dario, from Buenos Aires

Canadian Brandon, Joe’s cousin from Vancouver

Yasar, my host in Istanbul

Carlo, hair dresser in Cape Town

Handsome Mayo, Santiago

Wayne from Sydney, Australia’s biggest Madonna fan

Serdar, a curator in Istanbul

Egnaldo, my host in Sao Paulo

Gorgeous Georgios, from Chicago, met in Hong Kong

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

Fabulous Ari, and English teacher in Buenos Aires

Amazing Mioh, UN diplomat in Bangkok

Manav, my Howell’s drinking buddy

Marco from Mexico City

Will, my host and friend in Melbourne

Joe, my favourite painter, from Seattle

Tim, playa buddy

Ron from Tel Aviv

Connor, from London, whom I met in Hong Kong

Sophia, an English teacher in Santiago

Guido, my Santiago guide

Sebastian, a casting director and my Chilean guide, Santiago

AJ and Daniel, English teachers in Santiago

Jessica, an english teacher in Santiago (and Daniel)

Beautiful May from Chile

Daniel from Mexico City

Liran from Tel Aviv

Joel from Montreal, at the Tam Tam

Roberto from Sao Paulo

Ceres, a fellow traveller in India

Gonzales, from Santiago

Ardarsh, a banker in Hong Kong

Russ from Seattle

Jimena, the best Mexico City guide

Andrew from Buenos Aires

Daniel, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Tony, Italian designer in Hong Kong

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

Sara, one of my Melbourne hosts

Jarrel from Montreal

Fellow traveller Robin

Marco, my Google maps expert from San Francisco

Jerome, Montreal party animal

Raffi from Montreal

Arié, the Hug Train from Montreal

Francois, Air Transat flight attendend and friend form Montreal

King Leon, from Hong Kong

Corey & Kylie, from Melbourne

Xavier, drinking buddy in BsAs

Craig, our Burning Man Tree house architect

Guilherme from Sao Paulo

Gustavo, Mr Hermes in BsAs

My Ramen buddy Robert, Seattle

Mike from San Francisco

Guilherme from BsAs, now in san Francisco

A Schlumpf in Tel Aviv

Maxi from Buenos Aires

Jonathan from Santiago

Michael, my Melbourne buddy

Jaime, a journalist and PR manager in Santiago

Artur from Mexico whom I ment in Varanasi

Anton, Cape Town buddy

Olivier, flight attendant for Air Canada

André, a fellow traveller from Montreal

Warren, my playa buddy

Antonio, Nacho’s friend in Mexico City

Lily, my host in Seattle

Paul, student of Japanese, Tokyo

Fabuouls Josée from Montreal

Sunny Chris from Baltimore, English teacher in Santiago

Harvey, my host in Ponsonby, Auckland

Fabio, a Braxilian from Montreal

Colin from Shandong MaMa, with Mark

Alvaro, who showed me Santiago

Montreal Brandon, my crazy ass buddy

Jen at Burning Man

Fabio, whom I met at the Sao Paulo Film Festival

Sammy, my Hong Kong photographer

Kate, the best, from Melbourne

Javo from Buenos Aires

John, my Burning Man camp mate

Craig from Seattle

Amazing Mallory at the Taj

Guilherme, my host in Sao Paulo

Party animal Clinty, in Auckland

Jaime, a Chilean diplomat

Sammy, Melbourne drinking buddy

Timothy from San Diego

Fernando from Buenos Aires

Wim, Dutch-American sailor and nurse, Seattle

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!