Tripatini contributor Hardie Karges writes:

"Travel usually involves a lot of planning and packing and booking and backtracking. At age 70, though, there are many new ways to travel. For one thing, there is time travel, which is what I call revisiting a place that I visited long ago, just to see all the ch-ch-ch-changes, maybe even recognize somebody from the old days. I’d done this before and did it again during the pandemic, when my usual Asian haunts were locked down tighter than a you-fill-in-the-blank and so I reverted to my original routes in Latin America, which were more on the catch-as-you-can American plan—nice. But now I’d rather travel in my mind—and online—with the hope that something I write might strike somebody’s fancy and inspire them to read a story I write, most recently the story of 5th-century Buddhist pilgrim Fa Hien, who hiked from China to India just to search for the origins of Buddhism and translate the texts into Chinese."

Read more in his post The Fascinating Story of a Medieval Buddhist Pilgrim's 5,000-mile Odyssey.

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