Travel more with less

There are different ways to travel.
It doesn’t matter what budget and how much time you have.
I’ve been traveling for 20 years now, swapping my home with others, or taking my shell with me, my van.

When I travel, often alone, I seek first and foremost silence.
Tranquility.
In the silence, I observe.
The people I meet.
Local traditions.
Cultures different from my own.
I adore diversity.
A rare commodity in a globalized world colonized by the large chains of aseptic hotels all the same in every country.
Traveling with curious eyes requires getting out of one’s comfort zone, out of the places one knows, off the beaten path.

I’m looking for an experience out of the ordinary.
And finding it doesn’t require endless budgets.
When I left my job at RAI for example, I tried to put my passion for textiles and crafts to use to pay back the living costs of traveling.

Everywhere I go, I meet artisans, listen to their stories, select the products of their ingenuity and craftsmanship, and turn them into unique and original garments that I then sell at markets around Italy and beyond. More journey within the journey. Always free, always outdoors.

Travel more with less: Traveling more and more sustainably. Using fewer resources, less luxury, generating less pollution and more sharing, respect, search for authenticity.

It is a choice of freedom. You just have to want it firmly and consciously. The important thing is the path, not the goal, which often becomes a comfort zone where everything we do is an automatism that, no matter how challenging, guarantees success that is a kind of drug.

Curiosity, on the other hand, is the real drug of those who choose change and realize that the road is finished, the goal reached, and one can start anew, setting out on another path. Curiosity is the engine of change.