The modern age. Cellphones, social media, consumerism, politics, war, and so on. It can be exhausting, at times, simply existing in the world today. As Jack Kerouac wrote in Big Sur: “We all agree it’s too big to keep up with, that we’re surrounded by life, that we’ll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it’s empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.”
For one man, he had enough. In 1989, Mauro Morandi sailed for the South Pacific, but he didn’t make it. Instead, his catamaran broke down, and he ended up on the small island of Budelli off the coast of Sardinia. He decided to stay. Why? To “avoid talking to anyone.”
