TheEssentialist had a fairly eventful recent few months.
I climbed an active volcano in Guatemala.
I ate shrimps while watching huge Panamax tankers crossing Panama Canal.
I got into a fight with a taxi driver in Nicaragua.
I was paragliding in Chile.
I danced the night away more than a dozen times in Buenos Aires.
I drank a bottle of whiskey with some random guy in La Paz who later turned out to be one of the most prominent businessmen in the country.
I drove through salt desert in Bolivia.
I flew over Nazca lines.
I swam across lake Titicaca.
I had monkeys jumping over my head in South American pampas.
I met world's best tattoo artists.
I walked around Mount Fuji.
I enjoyed amazing setting and art on the Japanese island of Naoshima.
I was ecstatic in Tokyo.
I was silent in Hiroshima.
I was partying like a rock star in Singapore.
I met members of the jury of the World Pole Dance Championship Finals in Manilla.
I met powerboat racing drivers in Malaysia.
I got drenched in Borneo.
I travelled roughly 40,000 kilometres and visited nearly 20 countries.
Yet, none of the above prompted definite urge of bringing back The Essentialist Blog from the state of deliberate coma to the state of full awakening.
Nothing until the day when I was walking around Omotesandō in Tokyo and saw this:
And instantly I thought: life is good. Traveling is good. Being on the road, spending nights in dirty hostels, eating food from street stalls, carrying only four t-shirts and two pairs of shorts over the course of 6 months: it's good. Meeting other travelers: it's good. Detouching from the real world - it's good.
But when I saw three fake puppies wearing Moncler outfits and starring at me from a Japanese window display, I realized it's time to go back.
How can you be out there, traveling, watching sunsets, climb waterfalls and so on, when THIS sort of stuff is happening in the real world?! You simply cannot!
Therefore, it is now official: THE ESSENTIALIST IS BACK. Today from Amsterdam, tomorrow from London, next week from Madrid. Digesting what's out there.
HAVE A GREAT YEAR OF 2009 EVERYONE!
THE ESSENTIALIST - IT'S BACK
THE LIFE - IS BETTER THAN EVER
and MONCLER- IT'S STILL HOT
