“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 at what happened in the traveler’s and adventurer’s life and in the 48 countries visited from 2013 to 2015.

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Having so far explored 6 continents, 70 countries, and more than 400 cities, Jens Oliver Meiert is a seasoned world traveler. Paired with an obsession to try whatever he can—documented in loving detail in “100 Things I Learned as an Everyday Adventurer”—, Jens dives right into everything. If he wasn’t just a bit compulsive, too, one might even consider this experimentation all perfectly healthy.

Jens is also a leading web developer and technologist (Google, W3C, O’Reilly) who has written several books about web development and design (including “The Little Book of HTML/CSS Frameworks” and “On Web Development”). He’s now primarily dedicated to the study of philosophy and politics. Have a peek at his work by visiting his website, meiert.com.

(This is the third part of the book series, “Jens is trying something.”)