Recommendations for a long journey
Recommendations for a long journey
📝 Relevant To Your Interests #8
Happy Sunday!
I’m writing to you from Romania. I drove here from the UK with my dad; it’s 1,300 miles. It took us three days! And we have to do it all again in reverse next week.
Like most long journeys, the one I took to get here has been both literal and emotional. We’re here to take care of some messy family business. Drama is high, tempers are frayed, and Romanian bureaucracy is wild.
It’s from that state of mind that I bring you this issue of Relevant to your interests, my roundup of links and recs that make my life richer – in all senses of the word. The issues are themed and today’s is, of course, all about long journeys. You’ll find a mini-essay from me about the journey being better than the destination, plus my recs for great reads/listens, including books about pilgrimages and parallel lives, a podcast about how it could’ve worked out, and a music video from the 90s.
If that sounds enriching, keep reading.
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