I am not walking.

It’s been more than two years, and since then a lot of things are different. But first, here’s the Original Plan from 2007:

As you might know from the video or from the blog, I did walk about one third of the initial way, from November 9th 2007 (my 26th birthday) until October 27th 2008. Then I stopped. I got a haircut and shaved off my beard, and I took a plane home.

I came up with a new plan: go back to university, get a degree, don’t think about walking for a while.

The place where I usually look at my books is here:

LMU show on larger map

Sometimes I just watch TV though.

I compiled my pictures into a short video and posted it online. Ever since then I have been getting many emails, all of them very kind, mostly asking a number of questions that I seem to have left unanswered:

“Why did you walk?” / “Why did you stop?”

Well, the only thing I can say is that I have been pondering over these questions too…

There are some answers that I tried to come up with. They are more of a practical nature though:

	1) money: about the dough
	2) routes: about red lines
	3) feet: about “made for walking”
	4) wear: about being fabulous
	5) transportation: about cabooses
	6) computer & gps: about communigation
	7) photo: about heavy-ass cameras
	8) the video: about the telly

Some people tell me that they want to do similar things: ride a bike through Africa, walk through Asia, or hitchhike around the Americas. Whatever.

I am not sure what to tell them, but I know one piece of advice:

It doesn’t matter what dream you choose to follow, as long as you have one. Go follow your dream, and laugh while you’re doing it!