Today and Tomorrow, Inshallah
“The routine of our journey had begun, unexpected in its small incidents, immutable in its unchanging lines: this interplay of accident and law, the surprises of every day worked into a constant pattern by physical necessities, compelling people along the same paths for one century after the other - this surely is the charm of travel in the open: and when our human methods of transport are so perfect that physical laws no longer regulate our journeys by land or sea or air, why, then we shall have outgrown our planet: and that delightful feeling of oneness with its animals and plants and stones, oneness in the grip of the same compulsion, will have gone from our wanderings for ever.”
Freya Stark, The Southern Gates of Arabia.
