Concord
Most of us associate travel with either fun (holidays, vacation, etc) or business. However, I've learned that many other people travel for reaons other than than: to attend a funeral, to visit a sick relative, to find a better life, to escape prosecution, etc.
I've been on planes next to: a person who was being deported, a few raws in fron of an inmate on its way to prison (in the foreign country); a person who left her 4 children behind and was going to stay with a distant cousing in the hope of getting a job (her husband had just died); a father and daughther returning home from cancer treatmen for her (she wore a wig at 9 years old), etc. etc.
Of course I've sat next to pretentious aholes plenty a time... I also sat next to a South African mercenary who began the flight as a "business man" but I had my suspicions and after a few in-flight cocktails revealed to be a mercenary (and gave me more detail that any sober person, no less a mercenary would...).
Just a thought brought on because Mrs. Concord (the real one) just flew out yesterday on a long journey to visit a sick and beloved relative and I am about to make the same journey...
So not all travel is fun and exciment...
spoonman
Damn, I always wanted to have a few drinks with a mercenary.
the saddest thing I saw in my travels was the refugee camp in Turkey.