7,000 Miles
'Route: the way taken to get from place to place', a grey tedious word. The action
of moving from place to place has no story, but is a physical act. Yet just as a person may
have a life beyond the word 'living', a word may have meaning beyond the dictionary; a word represents a different story to each person, and the word 'route', represents not the story of a route, but the story of my journey upon the silk route.
'There is substance between marks plotted upon a map, there is a journey, and there is life'.
Seven thousand miles of history and seven thousand miles of trade a…
