About

: I think I need to travel for a bit to get out of this mood!

: Where do you want to go

: I don’t know, maybe a month of east Europe and then South East Asia for a month or two.

: Well I join you for 10 days

…And this is how my friend and me decided to leave. We took a flight on the 23^rd of September 2015 to Munich to celebrate Oktoberfest.

I am called Nima and I am an Iranian born who moved to Canada when 17. I have lived in Canada for 15 years as of now and I reside in Vancouver. Like many young and ambitious North Americans I had a dream, a vision to have a start-up, innovate, be successful and rich!

I graduated in MSc. in Biomedical Engineering and was working on a startup since the graduation in 2010. Full of Ego, I was doing something really big; becoming rich and successful, had a hot Russian girlfriend at that time … I was rolling! Well… until May 2015 when I realized I was wrong! During the very last technical conference/exhibition I realized the sad truth, that we lost it to the competitors. They were ahead of us by far while we even failed to gather enough cash to continue. And my love life: I learned that I have absolutely nothing in common with my partner. The dream was gone! Dark days started, I became depressed! During depression getting tasks finished is extremely hard (or impossible) let alone travelling! When I pushed myself to go for couple of months, I was expecting to fail and be back within couple of weeks. Specially travelling alone, having to deal with myself was tough to even imagine.

Today was the anniversary of the trip and not only I didn’t fail, I am not even able to quit anymore….

For this trip I have been in Order to:

German, Czech, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Japan, Iran.