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A creature happiest when lost, expert at being foreign, fluent in pointing and smiling.
means A person who journeys from one place to another, especially over long distances or to unfamiliar places.
from From the Old French 'travailler,' to toil or labor — the same brutal root that gives us 'travail.' The hidden ancestor is the Late Latin 'trepalium,' reputedly a three-staked instrument of torture (from 'tres,' three, and 'palus,' stake). So early journeying was understood as a kind of suffering, and the word still carries the memory: to travel was, originally, to put yourself through it.
- oldest itch
- Humans walked out of Africa 60,000 years ago
- baggage truth
- Most travelers pack twice what they wear
- passport flex
- Japan's passport reaches 190-plus countries visa-free
- jet lag
- Eastward flights hurt the body more than westward
- word roots
- Travel comes from travail, meaning painful labor
marco polo — venetian merchant who traveled the silk road to china from 1271-1295
zheng he — chinese admiral who led massive voyages across the indian ocean 1405-1433
nellie bly — american journalist who circled the globe in 72 days in 1889-1890