Consciousness & happiness

Friday, April 07, 2006

Sand

A few years ago, on a freezing December evening, we dined in Patzcuaro, Mexico with an intrepid couple from Quebec who were cycling around the Pacific--a "Ring of Fire" multi-year adventure. (Check out Janick and Pierre here.)

A year earlier they cycled clear across north Africa. Libya, they said, was the toughest. Day after day they saw the same thing--unrelenting desert--stretching off for miles on either side of the road. One day they encountered a lone Swiss backpacker walking down the otherwise empty road. They discussed their different modes of transport, and he said, "I used to cycle, but I found I missed a lot, so now I walk." They said they looked out over the monotonous vista and tried not to smile.

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