At some point, standing
becomes more difficult than leaving
And so, you discover that it's never too late to take back the right to live rather than merely survive.
Sometimes the journey begins
long before the departure
When you understand that the first border you have to cross is within yourself.
Two intertwined, inseparable journeys
Because in the end, when you really leave, you leave nothing at home.
You take everything with you.
It's not just a travel diary
It is the story of a man, no longer young, travelling through Latin America and who, along the way, encounters the truest parts of himself.
Between buses, volcanoes, beaches, lagoons and silences, "Domani si parte all'alba" is an unfiltered journey into places and into life.
A story
in numbers
A journey made of roads, waits, borders, encounters and landscapes that change the way you look at things. Not just an itinerary through Latin America, but an experience lived to the full.
TOTAL KM
67,582
KM IN FLIGHT
49,917
KM ON ROAD
17,435
KM AT SEA
230
COUNTRIES
10
MONTHS
5½
The three souls of the book
This isn't a book to be read in a single way. There are places, of course.
But there is also the gaze with which they are crossed. And there is that
the most difficult moment to describe, when the journey stops being
displacement and becomes a reckoning with oneself.
The world, when it stops making a scene
A journey isn't a well-crafted postcard, nor a collection of places to tell others about. It's the road, the wait, the effort, the encounters, the details that can't be planned. The Latin America that emerges from these pages doesn't seek to seduce: it lives, endures, and displaces. And precisely for this reason, it leaves its mark.
A look that sweetens nothing
I didn't try to please anyone. I observed, reacted, took a stand. I let myself be excited, irritated, and disturbed. I tried to describe the places and people as I experienced them, without softening the edges too much and without even posing myself. A personal voice emerged, at times ironic, at times rough, but sincere. I wasn't interested in being likeable. I was interested in being real.
The point where you can't tell yourself anymore
At a certain point, travel is no longer just the places you see. There's time that flies, relationships, postponed choices, the gap between the life that appears and the life that is truly felt. This book can speak to those who dream of leaving, but even more to those who perceive that staying the same becomes more difficult than changing.
To Emanuele
And to those who, like him, never give up.
There are battles that don't make noise,
but they teach more than many speeches.
Emanuele, with his strength, his will to live and
his stubbornness in not giving up,
is the concrete face of this dedication.
A bigger thought comes from him, addressed
to all those who every day they continue to love,
to smile, even when life gets very hard.
Me,
Paolo Brumat
I didn't write this book with the intention of becoming a writer, nor to build a future as an influencer.
I wrote it to remember what I experienced, the places I passed through, the people I met, the thoughts that accompanied me along the way.
The result is a book that resembles me: unfiltered, restless, politically incorrect, at times harsh, more interested in the truth than in making a good impression.
Why order
your copy
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Because it's not a tourist guide, but a real journey
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Because it tells the story of Central and South America without filters and without poses
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Because it unites places, people, stories and reflections that leave their mark
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Because inside there are over 700 pages to browse full of stories, images and travel tips
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Because it can speak to those who want to leave, to those who just want to dream,
but above all to those who feel that the time has come to change something
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Because a portion of the proceeds will concretely support Emanuele's family
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