TRAVEL 2040
The Long Way Round: Margaret and Arthur Hale · Alpine sleeper routes · 2034
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The Long Way Round

Margaret and Arthur Hale · Alpine sleeper routes · 2034

“Keep moving slowly. Stop where it feels right. Never rush a morning.”

Margaret had wanted to see the Alps for forty years. In 2034 she finally went: six weeks, eleven night trains, two small cases and no itinerary.

In TRAVEL 2040 the sleeper comes back, not as nostalgia but because it’s the better trip. Her AI companion held the plan; she just answered one question each morning: how much of the world today? It was slower, and lighter too.

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174 pages of AI-imagined photographs, posters, plans and objects from the decade travel slowed down. A great Christmas present