"My personal worldmap" (part I)

Would like to share a couple of extracts from the book "Planisfério pessoal" written by Gonçalo Cadilhe. This dude went to one of the main newspapers in Portugal and said something like:
- Hey! I am going around the world and I promise not to sit my ass in an airplane while doing it. Will you pay me for weekly articles sent from wherever I am?

And guess what? The newspaper said... "Sounds cool!". So, 3 or 4 years later this book is out with the "best" of his chronicles. Here's a couple of thoughts from this "former manager" turned Willy Fog, without the 80 days deadline... the extract below is while climbing Chacaltaya in Peru (free translation).

"I start climbing slowly, against very strong wind that slows me, because of it's force and of hipothermia. Only 200 meters climb to reach 5400m (...).
(...) I think about that race of humans that is motivated for the most absurd stimulous: not to see anything higher. (...) because "quality of life" is not the SUV for the morning traffic jam 5 days per week, and also saving on what you eat to invest on what you show. "Quality of life" are not the 4 surnames and 3 names (...), or the 1 room apartment entrenched in some periferic architectural horror. (...) "Quality of life" is not the music pounding in our heads Saturday night, the superficial chat with the whisky glass on our hands, the book that is not read, the decision continuously postponed.

Quality of life is having a dream and living for it, doing like Joao Garcia (famous portuguese climber), who is portuguese but from an old race that dilutes itself shopping in a supermarket on a Sunday afternoon.(...)"

Bla bla bla many of you are thinking I know... but... I always wonder... What if one (again) chooses the path less walked? Have we ever really tried it?

Carpe diem! (take this literally...)

(near Segóvia, in the hills north of Madrid)