If everything goes somewhat normally today and there are no problems with the engine or anything else, we should be in Greece this evening. Eureka, the promised land. In fact, the light traffic is a good thing, we move forward quickly and reach Skopje (today the capital of North Macedonia) in the morning. A sleepy town, that's how it seems to us, although...
Could it be that we have only been on the road for a short time and are already behind on our provisional march chart? If this continues... But luckily for us we are not pressed, we have plenty of time. Who cares if we arrive in India a few days or weeks earlier or later. …
Memories are questionable witnesses when it comes to reliability, truth, and accuracy. They are versions of our minds, cobbled together from images, sounds, images, dreams, smells. They cannot be trusted, and yet in their own way they represent a truth, perhaps different from the one actually experienced, and yet a testimony to something perhaps so...