Hey, dad… What's behind the horizon?…

To Cyprien, my son.


My greatest happiness is to take you to discover the far-off horizons and their natural marvels, to let you discover and understand all the diversities which make the richness of this world, without easily turning your back on its miseries too…

Why all this?… Simply because I want to make you live a dream that many people dream to live, which has in addition the advantage of nurturing the soul which dissimulates itself within our inner most masks…

I've chosen to make use of a big part of the money I get in exchange for work, to travel, not only for my own pleasure but above all for the pleasure of enriching you with the emotions, the colours, the music, the perfumes which compose this planet… To eternize your hunger of discovery which illuminates your gaze.

 Don't ever close your marvellous eyes…, you would sink in the deadly satiety, in the indifference…

…Play whole days with the lion cub Cleopatra and with a baby rhino of four month old, in Zimbabwe… Sail with the Indians between the giant nenuphars on the rio Yavari, fishing with them some piranhas that we'll eat for our dinner and… your Amazonian misadventure which scared us and left you an adventurers scar on your leg, which could speak volumes about real human beauty… Vanquish your first summit, in the Himalaya… Play hide-and-seek with fishes dressed with rainbows, in the South China Sea or in the Coral Sea… Enjoy the superb landscapes of Tioman or Perhentian and be wondered by the incredible colours of their sunsets… Feed the kangaroos in Australia and be amazed by the softness of their fur… Have great time in the desert of Qatar, driving motorbikes… Discover the majestic pyramids of Gizeh and steal some magic moments from the past… Share a piece of life with the Navajos, sleep with them in their "hogans" and discover Monument Valley… Explore Easter Island and try to penetrate the mystery of this country of stone giants, be moved by the profound beauty of Rapa Nuis children… Visit the penguins, in Patagonia, be astounded by the extreme serenity of the landscapes of Tierra del Fuego… Have great fun driving beach buggies, discovering the Moon Valley in the impressive desert of Atacama, watch the superb moonrise and feel yourself in another dimension in the moonlight… Be genuinely captivated by the extraordinary beauty of the rice terraces of Bali… Attend the sublime water scupltures from mother nature, in Victoria Falls or in Iguazu… Swim with the sea lions and watch the iguanas in Galapagos, or just taste the pure happiness, in Isabella… Play with the seasons, looking for summer in winter and for winter in summer… Loaf about, looking for that little unique thing on the markets of Katmandu or Kuala Lumpur, bargain hours and hours, chat, narrate ones life, exchange looks with people from other times… Precious, eternal, inestimable and invaluable moments… Of course it's not the point to under-estimate the people who give life to these markets, like the fat poor little rich man who thinks that even emotions can be bought…, it's just a matter of an exceptional medium of communication which is much more profound than just bargaining. It's the lunguage of the heart…

Of course, these explorations are paid with money… But never forget that the richness is not to be found in money..., but in the heart and the more you open it, the more you enrich others and… yourself too…
Money is nothing else than an instrument which, badly used, can be the two-edged sword which could hurt us in an irreversible manner.Money is related to richness as bankers are to the Amazonian Indians…

If you want to become rich, open your heart to all kinds of differences and use these to make the magic cement which will consolidate the foundations of this big house called Earth.

Don't ever forget that all your discoveries are just the luck life has given to you, and nothing more. This luck is also a big responsability for you, which consists of transmitting all the lessons these discoveries gave you, beginning by never ever overestimating yourself with regard to the beings who live differently.

 Spurn all apocryphal ideologies which are nothing else than borders even more noxious than the ones which separate countries, because they are sly and invisible…

Remain a free thinker… forever !

…Well… Let's begin the story now…