How amazing it is that there are adventurous souls who have stuffed their passport and camera into a rucksack and headed for parts unknown. I’ve been told that if you travel you realize how small the world is but I find that impossible to believe. I once flew from southern BC to northern Alberta and as I watched mountain range after endless mountain range spread out below I had the most uncomfortable realization that my daughter and I were to be separated by an unfathomable distance.
Maybe it is the ability to come home again that fools people into thinking the distance is nothing at all. Just a little hop in a plane and presto, half a continent is traversed.
I think it is only this century that has come to think of distance so casually.
We can travel into yesterday or tomorrow now with a plane ticket. And we can see life unfolding under the sun while we dance under the moon.
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