Have you ever heard about Couchsurfing?  Do you know what Couchsurfing means?

Couchsurfing: is an online community where you can ask or offer others a room or sofa in your home for a short stay to help travelers, have a cultural exchange or simply for generosity.

This fantastic platform is helping me to travel in this long adventure of mine and it also helps me to get in touch with very stimulating people who teach me so much every time.

In Shanghai I was extremely lucky to find Josue Alcantara, a senior member of Couchsurfing who hosted more than 200 travelers in his apartments, on my way and I took the opportunity to share his long experience with all of you.

We talked about the great experiences you could have as a couchsurfer, but we also discussed the risk you could take if you meet the wrong person.

What’s the best part about Couchsurfing?

What about sex during couchsurfing?

What was your best experience?

What was the worst experience?

My friend Anil hosted me in his fantastic apartment in Mumbai last week and he gave me so many good ideas about my project.

One of them is making “behind the scenes” videos in which I can share with you all the best anecdotes about the interviews I’m doing and about my trip!

I know many of you think I’m on vacation , but the truth is far from it.

In this video I explain my day a little better.

When you go on a world tour that will last a whole year and you are about to do something completely new, being afraid is normal.

And although it is not my first long journey or my first adventure in which I try to become something I was not, a thousand questions assail me on the eve of departure:

“What the hell am I doing?” “Will I be able to become a reporter and share my emotions and those of all the people I meet?” “Will I be able to complete the project?”

All these fears are amplified to the nth degree at the moment of the last strong hugs, those in which you try to record the smell, the look, the voice of the people who will miss you more to bring that memory with you.

But then you are left alone, with your dream suddenly questioned.

After a year of preparation, certainties, determination, you arrive at the airport to take the first flight and everything becomes uncertain.

You no longer know if it is worth sacrificing all of this for something you have absolutely no certainty about.

I detach myself from the snake of people who follow the directions for Gate B22, towards Tel Aviv and I stop for a moment to breathe deeply as if I wanted to breathe even my broken brain.

I know what is happening because I have already experienced it: it is the pure and raw fear of novelty and uncertainty that tests your determination to see if you really deserve it.

But when the fear tries to scare you and make you back away, it’s time to smile back and thank her for reminding you how eagerly you want to achieve your goal.

I take the last breath which becomes an immediate recharge of energy and positivity, I get back in the snake of people towards the B22 gate for Tel Aviv ready to write my future.