Life is a journey and traveling is life!
{mosimage}Life in Travel is an open space where i'll try to insert as much news and informations as possible relating to the magnificent places that i have been luck enough to see and know during my pilgrimages around the world. And I trust in your help to make known to as many people as possible, the more interesting and surprising angles of our planet.
This magical world that despite our continuous mistreatment and scuffs that we provoce to him, continues to offer sublime visions of itself. The love for travel and nature brought me into unique and wonderful corners of the world: I had the good fortune to spend unforgettable days immersed in the absolute quiet that only nature can give us, i could see and admire natural masterpieces such as Cataratas do Iguacu and the Pantanal, the Perito Moreno glaciar and Cerro Torre, the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley.
I was bewitched by the beauty of the Earth during the long walk made in "my" Alps or shorter trails paths between the thousands of waterfalls in the Plitvice park in Croatia. I had the feeling of being able to slow down the passage of time in interminable days riding my beloved bicycle through the dirt roads in the middle of the Patagonian pampas grass as climbing and descending to the rolling hills of Tuscany and Sicily. I also learned to appreciate the skill and talent and artistic human genius visiting some beautiful European capitals, the vibrant Rio de Janeiro, the chaotic Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, surreal Las Vegas and almost inaccessible New York.
I will try to tell all this through the experienced sensations and the remained memories, trying to avoid issuing rulings but conscious of the fact that my vision is not impartial but purely subjective, like {mosimage} this of each of us: someone who has seen and experienced the places described, will find my words perfectly consistent with the visions in his memory, others will be completely at odds with what I write. I think that this is absolutely normal and legitimate, and for this I ask all of you to help us improve the content of this area, leaving your comments or your "memories." Because a life is not enough to know all our beautiful planet, I would be very happy that all of you, travellers and photographers, will leave a track of places that have attracted you most (but also disappointed, why not! Not everything is as we imagine but deserves to be told and shared).
So thanks for visiting and good navigation to all of you!
Leonardo.
PS: I would like to leave you with a quotation from a tale that struck me very well and that is the spirit in which I believe we should live our brief existence on this world:
"... But now I came to the end of the street and soon i'll become part of this sand which now have the color and smell. What sense had my travel? I can not feel fear but only regrets for places that i'll be not able to see. I have always known that in these expeditions it could happen to die, but death is not a price high enough to give up all the beauty of the world. I learned that we must not become slaves to fear, locking ourselves behind heavy doors, dark houses in which life has ceased to live. No, better sleep on the bare land under the blue stars that tremble cold, risking death but fortunately also live. Why live is a journey without map and compass, in which only fear and prudence make you lose.
Who returns from a long trip is surprised to see the childhood friends, aged and greyed, suffocated by marriages without leaps, by occupations that thay do not like. By days everytime equal, passed to suffocate the malaise who with a lover, who in front of a TV. From prudent and safe choices that do not ever leave space to chase a dream that makes the heart beat.
Who travels returns instead with some more gray hair and wrinkle, but in his eyes still shine the spark of twenty. The others drive car ever larger in increasingly narrow horizons, he moves on foot, but the world has become his home. The others use cosmetic surgeons and miracle diets, all concerned to add years to life; him, traveling, adds life to the years that were given ... "
Leonardo Soresi - "The boy who did not want to travel"