Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The Anonymity of Travel

The hotels all look pretty much the same.   Dull, unremarkable hallways leading to rooms with the same stale scent, of too much stress and little joy.    Work hotels are different than vacation hotels, always.

The flights are similar too, as are the airports.  They heave with people, but we’re not together, we just happen to all be at the same place, trying to get through the same hassles. 

We don’t connect when travelling- at least not for business travelling when it’s wake, eat, meet, eat and sleep again.  Another city, another day where you don’t really experience the place, but instead think primarily of the tasks of travel – the logistics of keeping going, moving until you get to the magical ride home.


We’re surrounded and yet we’re alone when we travel.

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