Currently:
Sailing to the Galapagos
Sailing to the Galapagos
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Currently:
Sailing to the Galapagos
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| In 2007 I left
for a multi-year adventurous Overland trip in my Land Rover from
Australia back to Europe via Africa. Initially it was planned as a break
in my career and the expectation was that I would eventually go back to
a normal life. In my First Note, back in 2007, I contemplated the various risks of embarking on such a trip, but also the expectations I had for it. Most of what I considered true at that time still is, including the difficulties of letting it all go (family, friends, easy life, plans for settling down...), the hopes of finding people who could inspire me and, maybe even myself on the road, but also the difficulties of coming back. As Lindquist said, it turned out that I knew enough, in particular about myself. What was lacking was the courage to draw the necessary conclusions. My biggest fear is now clearer: waking up one day when I am 50 with the feeling of having wasted my life. I thus decided to take the final step over the edge and continue exploring and dreaming for the foreseeable future until the funds run out - and maybe, God willing I may even find someone amazing on my path to share all these adventures with. I feel J. Conrad said it best: "Fear always remains. A man may destroy everything within himself, love and hate and belief, and even doubt, but as long as he clings to life he cannot destroy fear". With all that in mind, I am now embarking on a circumvention of the globe on a small sailing boat. Thereafter, I still have further projects, including a drive back to Africa in my Land Rover, this time on the West Coast, a drive with the same car all over Latin America, a crossing by foot and two camels of the Sahara, etc. I don't know where all these adventures will lead me, whom I will meet along the way, or what terrible end will befall me in a dark corner of a jungle, a stormy ocean or a dry desert. A life not lived to its fullest is simply lost anyway... |
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