20,000 Miles & Countless Life Lessons: Tom Allen’s Global Adventure

This is a quest case study. ( Read others or nominate yourself . )

More than two years ago, I met Tom Allen in California when I was on tour for The $100 Startup. He’d just finished a big tour of his own, and had a project he was working on: the screening of an all-new documentary about an extended journey.

Tom and I have kept in touch since then, and I used his story as one of the central case studies in The Happiness of Pursuit.

Tell us about yourself:

I’m Tom. Since 2007, I’ve been leaving home...