First, I’ve heard her voice. The accent transported me straight back in London.
Then I saw her. A little ray of sunshine, a little jumpy fresh girl with a smile big as the ocean. She looked like a great human.

I was downstairs, trying to catch the wifi from the hostel and I was getting ready to go to bed early but faith put her on my way and I’m grateful for that.

I was listening from afar her conversation with another guy and her saying that it was the first few hours of her solo road trip in South East Asia. I don’t really remember how I explained my project but she instantly accepted to be part of it.

  
I like to know the story and the character of the ladies I interview before askim them to be a Wanderlust Queen for this project but I wanted to a try a new approach with her, even if we just have met. Like a blond date. Her positives vibes and the fact that she was really confident about sharing her emotions and her way of thinking about her solo trip with a complete stranger like me and in front of the camera was so intriguing…

I started the ritual: I like asking exactly the same questions to all the girls and react afterall to each of the answers I get. I try not to interact while I record but I love encouraging them by expressing my feeling or my point of view with dramatic or funny faces. I often feel close to them, because their stories are always touching and I always feel a strong connection between them and me. Most of the time, they express the same kind of things with different words but there is always a point were they affirm their opinions on a subject which give a new aspect to the question.

I discovered Casey via the questions. I collected her amazing positivism and happiness and her reflexion on the question of detachment. Her honesty and empathy blew my mind away. Her free spirit and clear view on this world and “the other one” gave another direction to my night and probably to the documentary too.
I was not ready to meet a person that smart and that mindful for my last night in Thailand…

We decided to continue talking about this and that, about future and present, about connection, love, happiness and spirituality around a dinner, then a glass or two.
In the end, we came back to the hotel under the craziest storm ever, said the elements decided to make us remember forever the night we met.

By the way, this guy is an “artist”. He dresses up like that to collect money and once in a while, he gives 50% of what he earned to a person in need. It was a festival of good hearts that night. An explosion of love around me that I couldn’t pretend not to see. After my adventure with the stupid taxi driver in the afternoon, I’ve met three really human person. Just as to remind me that there is more nice people than bad one in the world. 

Thank you Casey, I know we’ll be around each other, sometimes, for the best!