You Oughta Be Trippin’
In the Greek epic poem The
Odyssey, the eponymous hero embarks on a 20-year journey to Troy (no budget airlines then), leaving behind his wife Penelope who was getting Tindered up by suitors (they believed our hero to be dead). Their son, Telemachus, was having none of it, so he set off on his own journey to find dear old dad Odysseus. It would have made for a great buddy road movie, especially since one interpretation of Odysseus’ name in Greek is “to suffer”. The legend became one of the great travel stories in the Western literary canon.
We too wanted to tell our own epic travel stories this month – none of which features soldiers in a giant wooden horse (#thathorsesmellsfunny) – and found travellers who went on trips of a lifetime: one to the North Pole to find True North, one who documented Unesco World Heritage Sites (for fun!); one who partied in the desert; one went to eat at an acclaimed restaurant in Slovenia; and one who visited all the world’s tallest buildings.
Everyone who travels has a story to tell: Sometimes you tell the world, sometimes you just keep it to yourself – if you didn’t ’gram it, it still happened. What’s important is that you did something your heart and head told you to. And we’re glad these people told us their stories.