"Travellers vs. Tourists: There is a wonderful, but neglected precision in these words. The old English noun "travel" (in the sense of a journey) was originally the same word as "travail" (meaning "trouble," "work," or "torment").... Significantly, too, the word "tour" in "tourist" was derived by back-formation from the Latin "tornus," which in turn came from the Greek word for a tool describing a circle. The traveler, then was working at something; the tourist was a pleasure-seeker. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him." -Daniel J Boorstin http://quotes.dictionary.com/search/latin
I was going to post this quote before I left... focusing on the adventure part of travel. After a few weeks, I am beginning to understand the "trouble" part of this definition.
All is well in Sudan, I'm fine. The work is good as are the people. But, nothing is ever as easy as it sounds at first.
No comments:
Post a Comment