On the 9th Novem­ber 2007, Christoph Rehage began a trip that would take him on the jour­ney of a life­time. Indeed, he had pos­si­bly the most amaz­ing adven­ture any 26 year-old could ever had — he “walked” from Bad Nen­ndorf, Ger­many to Bei­jing, China.  Just over 1 year later he arrived home in Ger­many on 13th Novem­ber hav­ing walked 4,636 kms.  On March this year he posted a video of his adven­ture on YouTube. It received a mas­sive 295,000 hits within five weeks - a fig­ure that not only shows what an extra­or­di­nary jour­ney this was, but makes many of us feel we’ve hardly lived by com­par­i­son with this young man. As he states on his web­site, www.thelongestway.com,“It is the longest way from a day­dream into a dream.”

Christoph pro­vides inspi­ra­tion to go on an adven­ture and see the world.  I’m not alone in this thought as the words “inspir­ing” and “amaz­ing” were posted numer­ous times in the com­ments area ofte  YouTube video.  The video is a pho­to­graphic doc­u­men­tary show­ing how his beard and hair trans­formed dur­ing the course of his jour­ney. I think every man won­ders what he would look like if he went some­what feral. How­ever, the main point from his adven­ture can be sum­marised by the advice his father gave him: “Son, nobody cares who you are not. It’s who you are that really mat­ters.”  Wise words.