„Das Leben kann man nicht verlängern, aber wir können es verdichten.“

Dieses Zitat stammt nicht von mir, sondern von dem Autor Roger Willemsen. Aber es spiegelt ganz gut wieder, welche Rolle das Reisen für mich und mein Leben spielt. Reisen verdichtet. Es bietet mir eine unendliche Plattform für neue Begegnungen und Erfahrungen. Es ist ein Kaleidoskop der Möglichkeiten. Und bei jeder reise entdecke ich neue Muster und Farbvariationen. Reisen  ermöglicht mir in einer einzigartigen Weise, mich auf bestimmte Orte, Menschen oder Erfahrungen zu konzentrieren. So wie mir es im Alltag daheim nie gelingt. 

Reisen macht mich stark

Wenn ich unterwegs bin, bin ich hell wach und aufmerksam. Ich beobachte die Welt – mal mit einem 360° Blick, mal gehe ich ins Detail. Ich nehme mit allen Sinnen wahr. Ich will sehen, hören, riechen, schmecken, fühlen. Ich will spüren und verstehen. Beim Reisen fühle ich mich lebendig, selbstbewusst und stark. Ich öffne mich und entdecke immer wieder ganz neue Seiten an mir.  

Reisen ist mehr als Urlaub

Zu verreisen, war immer sehr wichtig für mich. Doch nun verspüre ich eine große Sehnsucht, dem Reisen noch mehr Raum in meinem Leben zu geben. Mein Beruf als freie Journalistin gibt mir die nötige Flexibiltät, an jedem Ort auf dieser Welt – vorausgesetzt es gibt Internet – arbeiten zu können. Davon habe ich bereits in den letzten Jahren profitiert und habe mein Urlaubspensum jedes Jahr weit überzogen. Dieses Glück hat nicht jeder. Dessen bin ich mir bewusst.

Ana Mohn Reisen – sei hautnah dabei

Ich lade dich daher ein, mit mir gemeinsam Destinationen und Kulturen zu entdecken und in meinen persönlichen Reisegeschichten zu erleben. Du wirst bei meinen längeren Reisen die Gelegenheit haben, deine Wunschorte von mir erkunden zu lassen, dir Fotomotive zu wünschen, mir Fragen zu stellen,

I reject the idea of a 9–5 job. I want to explore the world while the sun is out instead of wasting the daylight hours working inside and dreaming of my next vacation.

But it didn’t work out so well.

After traveling for 6 months, I gave up and still moved to San Francisco. Traveling was fun, but I had a great idea and I needed to really focus and get real work done. What better place to build my startup than Silicon Valley?

But I soon found myself becoming too comfortable and slowing down, getting easily bored and distracted, and watching a lot of TV. I sat at my computer for 12 hours a day but didn’t feel like I was productive.

H1: Traveling is cheaper than staying at home

This is my average total monthly spending from one year living in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, one year living in San Francisco’s Upper Haight, one year traveling to 20 countries, and one month at a hotel in Bali. It is much cheaper for me to travel. Since the majority of my costs are from trains and flights, it’s significantly cheaper if I stay in one place.

H2: Traveling makes me more productive

This is my average total monthly spending from one year living in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, one year living in San Francisco’s Upper Haight, one year traveling to 20 countries, and one month at a hotel in Bali. It is much cheaper for me to travel. Since the majority of my costs are from trains and flights, it’s significantly cheaper if I stay in one place.

H3: 9–5 is not optimal

This is my average total monthly spending from one year living in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, one year living in San Francisco’s Upper Haight, one year traveling to 20 countries, and one month at a hotel in Bali. It is much cheaper for me to travel. Since the majority of my costs are from trains and flights, it’s significantly cheaper if I stay in one place.

H4: Traveling expands my cultural bubble

This is my average total monthly spending from one year living in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, one year living in San Francisco’s Upper Haight, one year traveling to 20 countries, and one month at a hotel in Bali. It is much cheaper for me to travel. Since the majority of my costs are from trains and flights, it’s significantly cheaper if I stay in one place.

H5: Traveling is not the same as vacation

This is my average total monthly spending from one year living in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, one year living in San Francisco’s Upper Haight, one year traveling to 20 countries, and one month at a hotel in Bali. It is much cheaper for me to travel. Since the majority of my costs are from trains and flights, it’s significantly cheaper if I stay in one place.

H6: I became a nomad by accident

This is my average total monthly spending from one year living in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, one year living in San Francisco’s Upper Haight, one year traveling to 20 countries, and one month at a hotel in Bali. It is much cheaper for me to travel. Since the majority of my costs are from trains and flights, it’s significantly cheaper if I stay in one place.

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Japanese street fashion has made the international news quite a bit this year, but not always for good reasons. From CNN and I-D Magazine to a much shared Quartz article to various unsourced blog posts, the English-speaking internet has been gleeful in declaring Harajuku “dead”. It’s a cliche at this point to dismiss stories as “Fake News”, but modern media feeds on shocking and upsetting headlines to get more clicks. “Harajuku is Dead!” sells far better than the more accurate “Harajuku is Changing”.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

– Maya Angelou

I wasted a lot of time when I worked in an office because of commuting and the massive distraction that is the internet. Now I spread my work throughout the day and take big breaks for exploring. After working for a few hours, I reach a milestone and explore the city until I want to get back to work. Or if I hit a problem I can’t figure out, I walk it off until I’ve solved it. Cycling between fun and work makes my days less exhausting and makes me less prone to burnout.Peco has proven she’s uniquely tuned into the trends that matter most to Harajuku’s youngest generation of girls. If she says that the swinging 60s have arrived, we aren’t going to argue!

For bonus 1960s-inspired Japanese fashion, check these two groovy boutiques:

Traveling makes me more productive

When I first started traveling, I was a great tourist, taking pictures of everything and doing all the activities listed in tour guides. After a couple of exhausting weeks it occurred to me that I’m not on vacation. This is my life now. I slowed down and realized that if I have a month to explore a new city, I don’t need to do it all at once. I can explore the city for a few hours and still get a lot of work done.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.On a trip to New York, my friends went to work during the days, so I went out and worked in coffee shops and in Central Park. Suddenly I was hugely productive, getting much more work done in 6 hours than in my normal 12 hour days. The same thing happened a few months later on a trip to London. I was even coming up with better ideas because the new experiences and surroundings were keeping my mind more active.

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