“Travel is transition, and at its best it is a journey from home. I hated parachuting into a place. I needed to be able to link one place to another. One of the problems with travel was the ease and speed with which a person could be transported from the familiar to the strange... The other way, going slowly, crossing national frontiers, scuttling past razor wire with my bag and my passport, was the best way of being reminded that there was a relationship between Here and There, and that a travel narrative was the story of There and Back” (Paul Theroux).