Literature for you never go without leaving scars. What is going on with my journey, all interest and follow-up raises, is very beautiful but also alarming. I begin to wonder what's going on. It's time to look in the mirror. "What you are becoming? Are you really you the type that projects excessive Internet or is it just a cartoon that others can handle at will? Can you still control this? How is it affecting travel and yourself?"Every day I receive emails, posts, twitters ... People do not know in the forums says most diverse. For I am crack, a great guy, someone who drinks beer and intoxicated studs spits Redbull; for others I am left, an overbearing, a symbol that hate for what I have, what I do or what I write. Is this success? I do not know. I just wanted to write and tell stories.
There was no write blog. Then I discovered a light and everything made sense. I cried in Tashkent and I knew I had found
This is a story. My new experiment is interesting, but the mouse is me. In my book A million stones told a personal transformation, quite close. Nobody but me watched as I faced Africa. There was only one bike, rocks, type stars and discovered with astonishment that inexperienced he could get what once seemed impossible. I have saved a precious and secret text that will one day be my best book; In the story the journey that I made shortly after by Central Asia and the Middle East. Nobody looked there either. I left without visas, without proper clothing or equipment. He was alone at the steppe, dust and the former Soviet Union. A motorcycle with plastic bags, an ugly dress and no sponsor. There was no write blog. Then I discovered a light and everything made sense. I cried in Tashkent and I knew I had found. I did not tell anyone but my girlfriend and my notebook.
Now it's different. I have become advertising ad man until he scratches his nose, hanging pictures like crazy, to edit videos constantly and responds all posts. It's something new for me. It is also interesting because it involves a metamorphosis. Another more. I think that instead of a round the world and forgotten explorers, what I really am describing is the phenomenon of the transformation that is becoming virtual puppet. I am traveling in a glass LCD. That does not come free. From this will come out a different person. Do I care? Clear, I that is at stake. But neither should fear stop me now.
Now it's different. I have become advertising ad man until he scratches his nose,
Many people give the hint I will speak of what is happening. And is that blogs are multiplying. It's like traveling to tell had become fashionable. As something that molase. Like most fans who, virtual friends or visits to their Youtube videos have to be the coolest. It is not just about funding by way of sponsors. That's an excuse. There is a lot of vanity and exhibitionism. It's a circus. An exhibition of egos. But since I am part of that circus I'm not allowed to criticize although to portray. No me saldrá Free. Being part has its cost. Every day I receive criticism, some because they feel more authentic travel in silence, others because they envy my computer brightness. But I've become a real reference for many riders who dream of traveling and count on blogs, magazines, books, facebooks y tuiters. I write, follow me, some even seek my approval or complicity.
It seems to me that most of those now planning to leave trip across Africa, go to America or around the world have in mind the story as a priority. Almost more important than the bike is going to take if the Contour is better than the GoPro camera. I think someone has to tell the truth as it may sound jarring or enemies win. I assume the enormous cost in time, efforts and experiences of traveling live to tell because I traveled at the time for me live and exclusive. When I crossed America, Africa, Central Asia or the Middle East did not tell anyone, publicité not in any forum, I hung up not on Facebook nor tuiteé for the simple reason that did not participate in any forum, had no Facebook profile and Twitter sounded a dog's name. Not crossed my mind when recording video and photographs of a million stones are so bad is because I took a camera 5 megapixels giving less quality than any of the mobile phones which many read my shit on the net.
That grind from living the true personal transformation that is fully sumirte on an adventure
When I is clear around the world had already filmed alone and in silence for several years and more than seventy countries. My transformation was already made. It was time to do anything. Try another game. So I am authorized to compare what is travel for yourself and what it means to do so for others. And I can assure you that there is a huge difference, cataclysmic, and absolute. If I have to choose, I prefer to travel for one and he will get a sack the rest. Others will have the Milonga. I do not usually do that. They accuse me of being a left. It is true, I am because I speak the truth even if you break the dishes. Have a trip, edit videos, write reports and answer twenty messages each day is fun but exhausting. I was really excited with the number of friends who send encouragement and laughter fill my nights with its comments. They themselves are worth. But, right and true is that the grind from living the true personal transformation sumirte fully involved in an adventure.
The time you spend, effort, concentration, on wheels not because you're in a hotel writing or editing videos, how many times you stop along the way to take pictures or record images, you lose hours or up Twitters answering posts ... all that isolates you from the world you travel, separates you from your self deep in the planet. It is a terrible price that some may not be able to recognize because they could not ever compare the two modes of travel, but that's. Becoming a writer on your own story line shorted intimate experience. Probably you will have another version. Perhaps you say motivates me some kind of envidia to malquerencia. Not true. I can say this with confidence because I proved that I can play well with the two decks. I have no complaints about my "success" virtual. So what's the problem? Could it be that it is not? How to highlight? It depends on what you actually. In my opinion, in. Not worth it if it means losing sight of what I believe to be the true sense of a great trip: return wiser and changed. Better return.
Now tell me what your real goal when you go for a ride to the world. ¿Impress or learn?
