Travelling: The Biggest Loss

I visited 55 countries, made dozens of friends and found myself in the arms of a number of lovers. The biggest lesson I took from my adventuring was this, absolute freedom, by itself, means nothing. Freedom grants the opportunity for greater meaning, but by itself there is nothing necessarily meaningful about it. This realization came to me slowly over the course of his years travelling. As with most excesses in life, you have to drown yourself in them to realise that they don't make you happy. In 2011, I travelled to St Petersburg, Russia. There's a bluntness to Russian culture that generally rubs western as the wrong way. Gone are the fake niceties and verbal webs of