The author wishes to assure the reader that the use of the personal pronouns ‘he’ or ‘she’ does not imply the exclusion of any person.

The Traveller

The traveller doesn’t shy an alien, for he himself is one wherever he goes. As a white European in Africa, the Middle East and Asia I was mostly met with curiosity and hospitality rather than discrimination or apathy.
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehn, good-bye is all an integral component of travelling. The traveller, desensitised, keeps his cool and ‘hits the highway’.
The traveller blends in, adapts and integrates wherever he goes. Home is wherever he hangs his hat. His mind dwells nowhere in particular. Like a martial artists’ mind, it flows like water in the river of freedom.
The traveller knows the game of life. He is a freelancer who embraces truth and faces reality on the front line of life, taking full responsibility for his actions. Unattached to any organisation, he finds his own way out of trouble or he simply perishes. He may share breakfast with beggars and dine with kings, he eats alone or not at all.
With no familiar door to knock on, he endures rejection and enjoys hospitality. The traveller will never settle, though he may establish a base from which to radiate into the world. Once flesh and bones deny him, his aura transcends into an elevated realm of motion.

The traveller never runs away from anything, he just moves on for no particular reason to the tune of the ‘highway blues’, riding the wind of intuition, divine guidance and destiny.
Like a passionate truckie, the traveller knows that life is a highway, more spiritual than bound to matter, that eventually evaporates into the clouds of heaven.
The traveller endures the bad times and savours the good. Neither the horrors nor the pleasures of the world are foreign to him.
The suffering of the species bears no hindrance, but compassion to the traveller. He remains calm in times of crisis.
When you mindfully travel the way, you live life to the fullest, knowing that all the ups and downs will balance out. You have won all your battles and made the greatest conquest of them all; that of your own mind.
“Keep on Travelling”