Travel Diary and Wisdom

  " One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things " - Henry Miller , American Novelist "   I have always had a strange fascination for terminals —railway stations, bus stands, airports, places where journeys begin and end. They are live, dynamic, spreads an aura of energy . Perhaps it is because a terminus is never really still. Somebody is always arriving, somebody is leaving, somebody is waiting, somebody is late, somebody is saying goodbye, or somebody is meeting somebody after a long time. A railway station has its tea shops, announcements, porters, vendors, whistles and endless streams of people dragging their luggage behind them. A bus terminus has its own music—the conductor calling out destinations, the tea stall playing an old film song, buses arriving and leaving with their headlights cutting through the dust. But an airport, particularly an international airport, has always seemed to me to be the ultimate terminus. It is a place whe...