From the
chapter: Travelling by airplane:
overzelaous travellers will often tell you
that the only real way of travelling is the so-called surface travel (by earth,
water) in contrast to air travel. The real traveller, you will be told, has to
be prepared to endure all the difficulties and trouble included in travelling
and not act as an unworthy turist who has everything served for him.
I don't object - it is true that one will
experience the countries better and deeper travelling always with one's own
vehicle or using the same transportation as the natives - but one is only able
to do that providing he has loads of energy and time. To reach the Fillipines
or Peru one will have to "take a really long walk" on the surface and
the travel will cost much more than the plane. It is also doubtful that one
will find the two-week trip by transsyberian rail for the fourth or fifth time
as delightful as for the first time.
Janin
