Hello, Melissa and Pierluigi and we're doing around the world in 365 days.
the 8th of July we boarded the first plane with destination Caracas from where our journey has come to life.
During these first 3 months we have traveled through Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile We went from the tropical forests of Venezuela, which inspired "The Lost World by Doyle, to the Brazilian Amazon forest, the green lung of the planet who struggle daily against deforestation "legal" and not, with strong contrasts of a Rio de Janeiro Favelas whose face directly on the beach in Ipanema, the current economic and social backwardness of a crushed by the giants of Paraguay in South America developing countries. And again, we crossed the cordillera of the Andes when it emerges from the intersection of the oceans as in Ushuaia rises above 6900 meters dell'Acongaua. We enjoyed the hospitality 'of un'Argentina whose veins also have Italian blood, and with its beauty makes it difficult to continue the journey. We have discovered the immense and unspoiled stretches of the Patagonian steppe where life bustles around every corner: the Andean condor flying over the valleys of basalt of Route 40, which chooses the right whale off the coast of Puerto Madryn to teach children to swim, elephant seals that after nine months traveling the high seas calling exhausted to rest and give birth, the killer whales that arrive to the Valdez Peninsula, just when the children were born to lions and elephant seals for food, the glaciers of Perito Moreno unlike what we think are more 'alive than ever, and challenging the global warming progressing from year to year.
Now we're in Lujan de Cuyo (20km from Mendoza, Argentina) and 10 days we are working on a farm experiencing the "campesino life": a collection of vegetables, irrigating the fields, preparing the ground for reseeding and lots and lots of good Malbec wine.
The coming months will see us continue in South America, to visit the Republic of Castro, then fly to a completely different world: the South-East Asia.
What do you think? Surely some will be wondering if we won lottery, we have some type of fixed annuity or from the contributions of Mum and Dad ', none of this!
Travel as we travel and 'easy and inexpensive. When we told our project to friends and colleagues, the most comment 'applicant' and 'state' but who knows' how much money it will take to do it "and" who knows' what trouble 'will face. "
personally think that these questions are the result of a mindset that we have self-imposed: if you're willing to do in less than a 4 star hotel but you settle for a hostel (which is full of travelers to share stories and itineraries of life) if you are willing to do without expensive restaurants, but you are happy to cook a hot dish, if you're willing to do without air line to get around inside but you can 'fit to spend the night on a bus, then you're ready to go.
change course, what are the priorities': finding a place to sleep, get, get some food e. .. immerse yourself in the wonders of the world around us. E 'cosi'che with $ 30/40 per day travel the world.
Schopenhauer said that 'man and' free to do what 'they want but can not do what piu'di' who wants to " is, we ourselves are our only limit.
What were doing before you start your trip?
We had a good job in a great company, full of certainties and external approvals, but unfortunately 'the train on which he had traveled all the stops Scandic future and it was confirmed that, similar to those of many others, not have approached us in any way to what we were looking for, or understand how to make a tangible contribution to improving the welfare of the world and help him survive the action of man. Working in business means to participate in the mission instead of someone else, spend their life, its energies to realize the dreams and interests of someone else, only to put aside their (and 'also true that people hardly remember having to reach for their dreams when they work 12 hours per day or more', regardless of holidays or weekends in exchange for good money). So we decided to get off that train and start to walk with our legs, taking on a life journey that has not stopped some, but which is 'what a researcher has more' needs.
The 'journey' and 'an instrument, and' the most 'fertile been found to engage in a stimulating research: to know people (past and present) life stories of distant people, places incredible that our eyes usually look but not see, animals and plants that we only read school books.
Baudelaire who said "the wonders of the world around us and hug us but we do not see them."
... and future? We learn to live the present, the famous "here and now that the pace of the previous life we \u200b\u200bwere never allowed to experiment.
In this, we are listening.
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