Feeling the Connection

2009 06 - pre-departure

Over the last few years, initially on my Dundee-Bristol journeys, I've really grown to appreciate travelling overland rather than flying.
I really feel like it gives you some sense of how the departure and arrival locations are connected. You absorb some of the flavour of the environment and people's interaction with it, even if that is only by looking out of a window of your transport. You also get a tangible sense of the distance covered.
When you fly you have very little sense of connection. You might as have teleported.
You are one place, then you are somewhere else.
Overland you travel through the intervening space and I think that's valuable and I like it.

At some point I realised I would have enough money to travel overland (thank you Granny & Grandad for your part in helping me reach that point) and so that is my ambition for the whole trip:
to avoid flying as a means of transport where possible.