Travel Travails
June 13th, 2010
An irreplaceable part of boyhood memory so intrinsic to my upbringing and growth is that of travel, and the trials and tribulations thereof. Coming from a farming stock in a far-flung village clearly meant extensive travel, and therefore the inevitable exposure to the accompaniments of a journey by motor road that was yet to acquire the creature comforts of a drive we enjoy today. Those episodes of journey by bus and later by train formed a cornucopia of human elements, of joy and exuberances, of success and failure, and of high emotions of suffering and pain: all in equal measure.
