Friday, October 16, 2009
Bags are packed... seats confirmed...
Tomorrow it's off to the airport at 11AM and over the course of the day, over the continent to home. I can never make this trip by plane or car without thinking of the time it took only a century ago to make this same journey, and the tribulations, anguish, losses and deprivations of those who made it anyway. And I think of how, maybe a century from now, this same trip will be made in yet a further fraction of the time--by beaming technology or some other preposterous technology we have not yet...
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