It’s been a tough time for everyone since spring last year, but for all of us with the travel bug there’s been an added layer of difficulty. You seem to have experienced the pandemic with mixed emotions, as you describe it in your new book, Journeys to Impossible Places?
There’s no getting around it – it’s been a difficult time for all of us. And yet the pandemic gave me the opportunity to look back and reflect, like for many of us, and write Journeys to Impossible Places as a very cathartic experience and an explanation for my son.
I suppose the problem for me is that I know how wonderful the world is, I know the experiences, memories, opportunities, sights, tastes, encounters that are there to be had. That becomes an addiction in a way, once you know you want to get back out there and have more of that. The
