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TRAVEL The case for slow travel ... Travel can often feel like a sprint. Slowing down helped us see places in a different light. 
Original article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/slow-travel-local-experience/ Peter Burgess COMMENTARY The following got my attention. A few weeks ago in late August I did a car trip with my daughter from my home in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, not too far from New York City to Denver, Co;orado. This was a reprise of a lot of surface travel in North America ... Canada and the United States ... that I had done in my youth more than fifty years before. In 1960, when I was 20 and a college student in the UK, I spent the summer vacation tavelling around Canada and the United States. I repeated much the same in the summer of 1961. One trip was delivering a used car from a car dealer in Montreal to another car dealer in Edmonton, Alberta. I was joined on this trip by another student who was also 'heading West'. We had to pay for the gas, but otherwise we got a free ride. In England, I owned a 1935 Morris 8 4-seat convertible, a tiny vehicle compared to the 1955 Cadillac De Ville we got to drive across Canada. 
A Morris 8 (mine was green) ..................... A Cadillac Deville town car I had never driven a car with an automatic gear-shift befoe, nor one with so much power. We drove from Montreal to Sudbury, a distance of about 400 miles, before a nssty burning smell warned us that we had not released the parking brake. For the rest of the trip, our brakes did not work very well. This was before the US Interstate Highway System was completed and before the competion of the Trans-Canada Highway. We crossed from Canada into the United States to drive on a paved highway south of Lake Michigan avoiding several hundred miles of gravel road. After dropping off the car in Edmonton, Alberta we completed the trip to Vancouver, British Columbia by Greyhound bus. This included a piece of road in the Rockies I knew of as the Great Bend, at the time, a stretch of gravel road of about 300 miles in very moutainous terrain. I was told that the buses only travelled this part of the journey at night because the passengers got so scared. I hink this was probably true ... because the road passed for many miles high up along one side of the spectacular Fraser River canyon before crossing the river and returning along the other side. Peter Burgess | ||
The case for slow travel ... Travel can often feel like a sprint. Slowing down helped us see places in a different light.
Perspective by Dabin Han
October 8, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
After refraining from traveling because of the pandemic, I’m starting to exercise those muscles again. This time around, my boyfriend and I decided to approach it in a different way. We wanted to come back from a trip feeling relaxed and well-rested. We decided to take it slow, rather than being on the move all day. In the end, we realized that this is a way of traveling that really appeals to us, and it left us feeling excited for future trips.
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