Heading East(er)

What has Perpetual motion and Travelling in common? 

“A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.” ― Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus.

Perpetual motion on the other hand describes motion that continues indefinitely without any external source of energy. Furthermore, the term is often used in a stronger sense to describe a perpetual motion machine of the first kind, a "hypothetical machine which, once activated, would continue to function and produce work" indefinitely with no input of energy. There is a scientific consensus that perpetual motion is impossible, as it would violate the first or second law of thermodynamics.

I think that new Perpetual motion machine exists in everyone who has started to travel. It is a Neverending Story, the story so different for all of us.

My stay in Malaysia is over. After 3 months of soaking into local culture, cuisine and business time to move forward. This time further east. Far far far east and I am not talking about Korea and Japan. (Maybe next time…). There is a place on the Earth that is one of the most excluded, remote, distant and beautiful in the same time. It is inhabited for centuries by one of the greatest sailors in the history of World. They managed to cross the biggest ocean on our planet without knowing even the basic tools as compass or sextant. Only stars, the Sun and animals were indicating them a path through Ocean Vastness. And I am not talking about beautiful and amazing New Zealand… That place is much more beyond the scale of reachability. So if you were thinking that New Zealand was the most distant place I could get, please be informed that it was just the beginning. 

In 2012 I participated in the biggest polish annual travelers meeting in Gdynia called ‘KOLOSY’ giving a speech about my travels to almost 5000 people. In that moment I didn’t expect that one day I will get to the place which is the symbol of that event. Far far far east or maybe rather far far far west from Europe there is a place with the biggest people on the Earth, or rather heads of them. The place with hundreds of statues made from stone. Yes, I am heading east… Easter Island in December. But before I get there Hong Kong, Seattle, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and Chile are on my way. My journey will be not as dangerous and challenging as it was for first inhabitants of Rapa Nui as it is originally called but I am sure it will be one of the biggest travelling achievements for me this year. But who knows what life brings… ;)