March 26, 2014
Gone are those
strenuous and lengthy naval expeditions for the exploration of
unknown territories. Today we fly over oceans in a few hours! We
travel through countries and travel across borders. We travel for
recreation, business, and also for an exploration of unknown places.
Basically, to travel means to move from one place to another that we
all know.
Did you know that the
word ‘travel’ was derived from the old French term called
‘travail’? Interestingly, ‘travail’ means ‘to toil hard’
or a ‘laborious task’. In the past, traveling was considered a
laborious task due to the hardships one had to go through while
traveling from one place to another.
The term was largely referred to ‘exploration’ of new places. People traveled on barefoot, in carts and manual carriages. One can imagine the difficulties of passing through thick jungles, wild forests, mountain valleys and desert having no hopes for a ‘safe return’. Today, a traveler stumbles upon countless tea shops and restaurants at every stop to fill his empty stomach. Truly it was a ‘laborious task’ for our ancestors to travel.
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The term was largely referred to ‘exploration’ of new places. People traveled on barefoot, in carts and manual carriages. One can imagine the difficulties of passing through thick jungles, wild forests, mountain valleys and desert having no hopes for a ‘safe return’. Today, a traveler stumbles upon countless tea shops and restaurants at every stop to fill his empty stomach. Truly it was a ‘laborious task’ for our ancestors to travel.
Even amidst such
hardships some of our brave ancestors took up expeditions and kick
started the exploration of unknown territories because of which the
world looks so small a place to invent anything new now! One needs no
vehicles to travel through these days. Wondering how?
All of us are
explorers now on the net. We travel through and across borders in a
second. No hardships. We cull information about travel destinations,
book vehicles and tickets, reserve accommodation and all that takes
no time.
I am not a travel
enthusiast, most of my expeditions are of recreational kind, and
family oriented trips. Love to sit and sip in a couch at a corner of
my sweet home and I do travel through my mind, and try to reach
across all depths of my inner world.
So, you guess, the
word ‘travel’ travels through barriers of time and place!! Still
wonder…what leads one to move from one place another. Why does one
‘travel’?
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