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Is there still room
for something extraordinary
in a life that's already full?

A normal life. A deliberately unreasonable idea.
Three years to see how much room we can make for it.

Paris → Beijing · 2029
01 — The Problem

A life can be good and still become full

Work, family, responsibilities, routines. Nothing I want to escape — but very little empty space left.

02 — The Question

Can you make room without walking away?

Not a free weekend. Something difficult enough to require time, money, learning and a few sacrifices.

03 — The Experiment

There was only one way to find out

Pick something I don't know how to do. Learn it. Make room for it. See what happens.

The First Big Test

Paris — Beijing
2029

Will we make it? I don't know. That's part of the point.

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The Project

The journey starts now

I'm 43. I'm a doctor. I have a family with two kids, a full-time job, responsibilities, routines — a pretty normal life.

We live in a world that often sells adventure as escape: quit the job, leave everything behind, break free, start over.

It makes for great stories. But for most of us, that's neither possible nor necessarily desirable.

I don't want to escape my life. I actually like my life.

Not instead of work, family and responsibilities.
Alongside them.

The question is how much room we can actually make.

Read The Project → Family illustration next to Nami, the Hilux
The Road to 2029
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Days to departure — May 2029

The experiment is already underway.

Journey

The Preparation Diary

Paris to Beijing starts long before Paris. Episodes, mistakes, decisions and small trips — three years of preparation, told as it happens.

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Field Notes

Beyond the Diary

The Diary follows one experiment. The Field Notes look beyond it — at the people, science, skills and ideas that might help us understand what is possible, what isn't, and what can sensibly be brought into an ordinary life.

Start with what interests you.

01

The Human

Medicine, physiology, psychology and performance — how we respond when we ask more of ourselves than everyday life normally requires.

Latest Field Note Hypothermia: what actually happens to the body? → Explore all Human notes →
02

The Machine

Machines, equipment and technology — what we actually need, what we can learn to use, and what might be better left behind.

Latest Field Note Do we really need a winch? → Explore all Machine notes →
03

The Field

Mountains, roads, remote places and unfamiliar environments — the practical knowledge required to move through them responsibly.

Latest Field Note Crossing borders with a foreign-plated truck → Explore all Road notes →
04

Those Who Went Before

Explorers, athletes, scientists, adventurers and books — not only what they achieved, but who they were, how they lived, and what we can learn from them.

Latest Field Note What the 1907 Peking–Paris race got right → Explore all History notes →
Why "Nami"

Two meanings, one direction

Nami means wave in Japanese: 波 — the same character also used in Chinese. But the name came from somewhere else too. In One Piece, Nami is the cartographer: the one who reads the world, draws the maps and finds the way.

She's not a mascot. Naming her felt more like naming a boat. She's the one thing that has to carry us all the way to Beijing, adapt to whatever the road throws at us, and somehow keep pointing in the right direction.

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Don't lose the thread

Follow the Journey

The experiment as it happens — diary episodes, mistakes, discoveries and Field Notes along the way.

New diary episodes and field notes. No content treadmill.