"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things." — Mary Oliver And once you answer that call, you will realize what you had been missing.
Travelling has often been linked to adventure and pleasure. With lifestyles changing and more and more of us getting stuck in the rat race of money-making and living the sophisticated life, travelling has become one of the main ways to obtain sanity. But increasingly, travel is being linked to leisure and luxury, with itinerary being planned down to the minutes details. so while we have started going out a lot, we often forget that it is the journey itself which makes the destination worth the effort. Almost all of us who travel in the true sense of the meaning, experience an emotion akin to awe for the encounters we have on the journey. We transcend to a higher plane than our normal lives. While there are innumerable service organizations to cater to tourism, we are interested in the stories of our travellers. What makes them to seek the remote lands, to move away from mundane routines, to pick up the bag and what changes occur in their inner selves (and outer as well). Travel Chronicles is just what the name says – a collection of stories from travellers who are willing to share their travel stories.
