With this week round-trip flight to Warsaw, Poland, I’m turning Gold.
Gold as the membership status of the frequent flyer program FlyingBlue, status that I’m reaching first time in my life after flight number 30 in an intense year of traveling, and also as you can imagine the only golden thing I could care about.
Having a blog with no goal but sharing my life makes tempting to write lots of good things about me.
But if you know me you know I’ve my shares of humanity so this week I decided to talk about failures…
Do you believe in coincidences?
In 30+ years here around planet Earth I came across situations so difficult to explain that I started feeling like an actor on stage in some absurd comedy.
I’m sure you know that feeling too.
Here some examples of what we call coincidences, stories involving unexpected encounters.
One autumnal Sunday morning in Lecco, on the shores of the beautiful Como Lake, few years ago.
As many Sunday morning, I was there with my friends, our motorbikes parked on a long line of hundred motorbikes, standing in leather suites and helmets religiously under the arm, talking with other riders about – guess what – motorbikes.
Vasco Rossi, the damn rocker
A man came out of the blue shouting:
“Listen to me guys!
I want to do a great concert!
I want to invite Vasco Rossi here in Lecco
and I want all the riders to enjoy this concert!”
Me and my friends looked at each other in the eyes, no word spoken, but clearly thinking “who’s this madman!?”.
He continued:
“I’m telling you guys this because I love riders.
And do you know why I love motorbike riders?
Because they are ALIVE! They have PASSION!”
What a beautiful declaration – he wasn’t a madman at all!
This time I write about things lost in the transformation.
I’m talking about the transformation I’ve been going through in the last years, since I left Italy and the easy family life to live the real life alone in this funny Amsterdam.
“I’ll call this process *volution
as I’m not sure if it was evolution,
involution, devolution
or simply a revolution,
but I’m sure it’s not over yet
and is not time to make conclusion.”
(I made rhymes! is this creative writing, or what!?)
Here is a list of 10 habits I changed or got rid of during this *volution.
I’m not telling anyone to do that, and I don’t want to convince anyone that I’m doing the right thing or the best thing. I’m just sharing what I changed in my daily life, making it simpler or more miserable as you like.
After all, not telling people how to live is one of the rules I put in this blog.
Colombia and Pacific ocean
Beou is a dude from US living next door.
He’s cool and he’ll pay me beers forever because a month ago he lost a bet, saying that Colombia doesn’t border with the Pacific ocean.
But he won’t pay me beers for the coming month…. and here lies my next challenge.
A new month is a good occasion to start a challenge, not for nothing but at least the numbers are on your side, and no calculation is required to remember when you started.
And this Monday, the week day I choose to publish the blog, is a special day as it’s the 31st October – last day of the month.
Continue reading “Experiment #6: my last beer (for a while)” »
Last week I had my first Couchsurfing guest.
What is Couchsurfing?
You can be a host, a guest or both, totally up to you.
You can ask to be hosted, or accept/deny requests from people to surf your couch, totally up to you.
Estate 2006: Wild Holiday.
Dopo quasi 3 mesi nel nuovo posto di lavoro sono riuscito, da buon italiano, a prendermi ferie nella settimana di Ferragosto.
Roba che da noi richiede qualche anno di anzianita’ 
Si parte alla selvaggia, presenti io, Colombo e Paul.
Continue reading “Wild Holiday: Belgio e Parigi (work in progress!)” »
It turned out to be a mistake, 2 years ago, but I still didn’t know.
I was kite surfing in one of the most stunning scenery I’ve ever been.
The dunes of the Sahara deserts are falling into a blue lagoon in Dakhla, Morocco, and the surfers are spending fantastically frugal days flying over the water and sleeping in simple bungalows.
Continue reading “Stories from Holland: health care, care about my health!” »
I’m very proud to present this experiment, the greatest so far.
This time isn’t a “one month change of habits” kind of experiment as the previous ones.
This time are hundreds experiments inside a bigger one.
Something planned well ahead, waited, prepared, executed and still with consequences under investigation.
Here it is: from June to August 2011 I took a career break to vagabond around Latin America – basically Colombia….