New Book: “Journey of J.”

Published on August 6, 2015 (↻ November 5, 2024), filed under Adventure (RSS feed for all categories).

Mostly for planned closure, somewhat for playful curiosity, I wrote another book. Journey of J.—Around the World in 557 Days, 1,017 Photos, and 291 Personal Notes is about the long and eventful trip I undertook after leaving the United States, in 2013, leading me back to my home country, Germany, in 2015.

Description

Journey of J. is a unique blend of photo journal and introspective diary, an unusual testament to 557 days of travel around the world. In this report, Jens Oliver Meiert shares 1,017 photographic impressions, and juxtaposes 291 personal observations. From simplified to deep, the result is a particular perspective of what happened in the traveler’s and adventurer’s life and in the 48 countries visited from 2013 to 2015.

→ This is the book if you enjoy authentic traveler reports of journeys gone well.

The outline:

• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
  • How to Just Quit and Travel the World
  • How to Prepare to Travel the World
  • The Law of Travel
• Journey of J.
  1. United States
  2. Dominican Republic
  3. Mexico
  4. United States
  5. Mexico
  6. Costa Rica
  7. Panama
  8. Ecuador
  9. Peru
  10. Bolivia
  11. Chile
  12. Argentina
  13. Uruguay
  14. Brazil
  15. Morocco
  16. England
  17. Turkey
  18. Greece
  19. Turkey
  20. Greece
  21. Israel
  22. Jordan
  23. Oman
  24. Kenya
  25. Uganda
  26. Rwanda
  27. South Africa
  28. Lesotho
  29. South Africa
  30. United Arab Emirates
  31. Turkey
  32. Georgia
  33. Armenia
  34. United Arab Emirates
  35. India
  36. Nepal
  37. Thailand
  38. Laos
  39. Thailand
  40. Hong Kong
  41. China
  42. Hong Kong
  43. Taiwan
  44. Singapore
  45. Indonesia
  46. Malaysia
  47. Australia
  48. New Zealand
  49. Australia
  50. Malaysia
  51. South Korea
  52. Japan
  53. South Korea
  54. Philippines
  55. United Arab Emirates
  56. Italy
  57. Vatican City State
  58. Italy
  59. Slovenia
  60. Austria
  61. Slovakia
  62. Austria
  63. Germany
• Epilogue
  • What to Carry When Traveling the World
  • How to Travel the World and Stay Healthy
  • How to Travel the World and Stay Safe
  • 180 Little Stories After Traveling the World for 18 Months
• Epilogue II
• About the Author

❧ Once more do I thank the wonderful Sarah M. Tyrrell for her tremendous help editing the huge manuscript, as well as Lalit Dalal for his expertise making sure my photos were indeed mine.

When I say planned closure and playful curiosity I’d need to elaborate. You would be correct in perceiving no presumption, but personal meaning; you would, however, need to ask me at a different occasion to share more on how the book exactly constitutes closure and curiosity—unless I find that there’s use for a public account to be made later.

Then, both On Web Development and Journey of J. are markers for lives I’m leaving behind. I’ll still be a web developer, I’ll still maintain the mindset of an adventurer, but the significance of these last two books is that they are what I wanted as proof for myself that I’ve dived in quite far enough into these worlds so to, in peace and with ease (of mind), put more steam behind philosophy and politics.

Finally! My last books are no mass market books, however your own curiosity and support, and then your honest and kind feedback, do help me as an author. Have a look at my books and, of course, get a copy of Journey of J.!

About Me

I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m a frontend engineering leader and tech author/publisher. I’ve worked as a technical lead for companies like Google and as an engineering manager for companies like Miro, I’m a contributor to several web standards, and I write and review books for O’Reilly and Frontend Dogma.

I love trying things, not only in web development (and engineering management), but also in other areas like philosophy. Here on meiert.com I share some of my experiences and views. (Please be critical, interpret charitably, and give feedback.)