Bernardo Bertolucci defined the difference between the two types of people who travel as “a tourist gets to the place he wants to go and comes back. The traveller gets there but he wants to go on and on and on.”

I’ve got that feeling now of going on and on. Into the unknown places. Anywhere I haven’t yet been to seems to be beckoning me on.

A brief taste, just the tiniest of bites really, into the varied beauty of Chile has only served to make me yearn more for the moving landscape.

Walking down dusty roads discussing Don Quixote, pine trees moving like waves in the wind; getting lost in sand dunes surrounded by eucalypts that smell like home; looking down on the coloured hills and houses of Valparaíso to the sea, plunging into the icy waters off a black beach. These are the moments that return us to ourselves. The parts we lost amid the stagnation of daily life.

How much more easy is it to make decisions for change when we are already in a state of movement? Our physicality impacts our thoughts and transforms daydreams into creativity.

As Alain de Botton writes, ‘journeys are the midwives of thought’. So here’s to more journeys, more ideas, more daydreaming and more change.