thirst for the road.
Today’s globetrotters and the travellers of the past have something in common: ingeniousness and not caring a whit about borders. Almost one hundred years ago, in a Balkan Peninsula without borders, the Aromanians were the greatest travellers. Shepherds with thousands of sheep, carters with caravans, unsurpassed merchants, and people of great accomplishment, they roamed the length and breadth of the Balkans. And even farther afield. For most of them, their whole lives were spent on the road: you might even be born on the road, you learned to walk, you invented games and stories, you sang, you kept the feast days, you learned the steps of the ring dances, you made good companions, you were betrothed, you wed– all on the road!
