{"id":2674,"date":"2010-02-01T00:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T05:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2010-02-01T22:13:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T03:13:20","slug":"accidental-traveller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=2674","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Traveller"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses)<\/strong><\/p>\n

You yearn to travel. This urge grows proportionally with your age.<\/p>\n

You\u00a0used to believe, with the advance of technology, with the Internet, you can just sit in front of the computer, surf through all these websites, and can enjoy a virtual tour of all the far away wonders of this world, without even have to leave your chair at home.<\/p>\n

But not so at all. As\u00a0you count the number of years and days remaining to be on this earth,\u00a0you want the real deal, to widen your horizon and knowledge, before your cataract-induced eye-sight, osteoporotic bones or the cholesterol plaqued heart failed you, and to whatever physical limitation\u00a0you are bound in this later part of life,\u00a0you just want to travel, to all those exotic places;\u00a0you took trips and cruises far and near, just to keep yourself busy and the travel agencies wealthy.<\/p>\n

You\u00a0become the accidental traveller.<\/p>\n

When travelled by air, as a young man,\u00a0you always asked for\u00a0a window seat, to be able to look out of the window, even if\u00a0you could only see the white clouds. When\u00a0you were married and have family of your own,\u00a0you always ended with the middle seat, with wife on one side and kids on the other. But when the kids all grown up,\u00a0you remained in the middle seat. Who wanted a stranger to sit between you, husband and wife. As\u00a0you grew older,\u00a0you tried to claim the aisle seat, more convenient to get up quickly for the washroom. But nowadays,\u00a0you ended with two aisle seats, across from each other, as wife favours the aisle seat too.<\/p>\n

Travel by car is another story. When kids were small. Before each trip,\u00a0you always asked, \u201chave everyone gone to the bathroom\u201d? And during the summer holidays while on the road, you frequently heard, \u201cdad, I have to go\u201d, and you constantly looked out for an exit with a restaurant or gas station. But now it is wife who reminded you, \u201cdid you go to the bathroom\u201d, before any trip. Otherwise you will ended up stopping on the side of the highway, for a quick relief.<\/p>\n

So you become the accidental traveller, or is it the accident-prone traveller?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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