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Paying to be uncomfortable in places with better light.
means To make a journey from one place to another, especially a distant one.
from Travel descends from the Old French travail, meaning painful or laborious effort — which itself likely comes from a grim Latin root, tripalium, a three-staked device used for torture or restraint. The popular story is that this literally means medieval journeys were so grueling they shared a name with instruments of torture — and while the gruesome root is real, the direct link between 'travail' and 'travel' as distinct English words solidified over centuries, as the word slowly shed its pain and picked up its passport.
- shared root
- travel and torture come from the same word
- modern irony
- now sold as relaxation, not punishment
- jet lag origin
- term coined only in the 1960s, with jets
- average suitcase
- most people overpack by roughly half