Why I decided to write a travel hacking book

I wrote my first book “The Freedom Project: Travel” as a response to the many people I met in art events, galleries and markets that looked at my pictures and commented on how they always would have wanted to go to Paris, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Amsterdam, New York, or any other of the many destinations I have already visited.

My question “so why don’t you” was often answered with a laundry list of reasons as to why it was impossible to go: jobs, finances, family, parents, children, or the very popular “we’re saving that for retirement”. Especially the last one makes the underlying excuse sound like a carefully planned decision. In some way or another, many of us are stuck on the “deferred life plan”: someday I’ll travel, walk on the beach or play golf every day. The hard reality is that you might not make it until retirement. We all hope to live long and happy lives in good health, but with the unhealthy and fast-paced lifestyle we’ve created for ourselves the question of whether we’re g…