"Maybe we travel for the contrast with our normal lives; maybe we forever seek that which we do not yet have or know. Perhaps some of us are simply travellers by nature, seekers of horizons and far, exotic places. The contrasts between the highs and lows of rough travel is extreme, but I wouldn’t describe such travel as pleasure. Maybe travel settles best in the memory, is merely the raw material of memory, and we travel to be able to say in retrospect: 'I once crossed the Nubian Desert, lingered in the souk of the ancient capital of Dongula and followed the Nile to the sea.'"
Don Pinnock “Just Add Dust”