The Journey

Why the attraction to times and places inhabited by ghosts? On an iron horse it is possible to travel to a distant time where old men lived and died. Looking at the towns they built and trying to recapture their dreams makes it seem almost as though we knew them. But that is just imagination, I think.

Visiting the reclaimed mining towns examining the buildings rejuvenated for the benefit of us who travel through gives a sense of peace. It is visiting the family sepulcher and placing your fingers on the tombstones remembering a long lost phantom relative. Is it real or an illusion?

We had to have come from somewhere.