JOURNEYS, OTHERNESS, EXCHANGES

In the current essay the journey is looked at from more angles both as a sacred place, diversity, a momentum of self discovery, a quest into self for the authentic travellers, be it a trip halfway around the world, or sometimes a race to the end of the street. Other and Elsewhere are passage rituals based on travel myths which can provide responses to the malaise of the madding Western society which undervalues and even marginalizes the nomadic tribes, Roma population, refugees, that is real travelers who start their genuine bias-free journey where certainties end. Travel is thus interpreted through the eys of a tourist writer always on the move, between Bali, the West Indies, the Guyana, Strasbourg, etc; the thoughts below being extracted from the three books on travelling, illustrated at the reference section below.