The apparent ease of transportation tempts us to substitute travel, a stereotyped searching for the exotic, for imagination.

It is a paradox of travel that people seek their ease through what is inherently unsettling.

We never arrive anywhere all at once, but rather are followed by a vapor trail of imaginings, memories and forebodings that we must gradually situate in these new surroundings.

Travel shares with illness the capacity to make plain the power of the physical