The traveller was born out of words. When they* came into being they didn’t have clear features yet. The traveller wasn’t male or female, old or young. They seemed to be human. They tried to find out what that means. The traveller was born in a time when more people than ever are on the move, for pleasure, for safety, for work. Looking for a place to live, spend time, be. The traveller didn’t know why they were travelling. It is how they found out what the world is like, can be like, should be like. The traveller was born out of urgency. That was the first word. Before they headed off, they packed some other words. Airplane. Feet. Time machine. Horse. Road. Internet. River. Temple. Forest. Shelter. Exterior. City. In the beginning there were ideas. They were dwelling places. The traveller spent time in all of them, slowly growing, changing, becoming. Moving from one to the other, mirroring them, absorbing them. They became a map. A map for the future.
* they = gender neutral