Dear travelers,
We were walking uphill, towards the terminal to meet our flight, at dawn. The sunrise, we said, was so beautiful, but isn’t the violet and blue aurora unusual? It seemed vaguely menacing, and it quickly became so, as my Aunt was pulled screamingly skyward. We ran to avoid celestial capture, but there were men with guns in the stairwells, and the end seemed very near.
Isn’t it always so in dreams of travel? The tarmac is burning, the plane is descending too rapidly, the subway station is too labyrinthine to navigate, and the train rushed by our station without a glance. Or, worse, it plummeted into a ravine before our stop. One time, I remember, we rode it many miles beyond our ticketed station, we were chased the length of the train, and throughout the depot, giving up entirely on claiming our bags, walking for miles in starlit Joshua tree forest. As I walked, I tried to list the contents of my bag; to recall what I had lost., what I would need to replace.
What could these dream journeys mean? The futility of arrival, the weariness and sorrow of departure? Is it the anxiety of the future manifested as a transition from here to there? A new career in a new town?
Just one good trip in a dream is all I am looking for- a booking that sends you where you want to go, a country without a border incident, a town you don’t get lost in, a connecting flight that lands without disaster, locals with open hearts.
PS
Wish you were here.
