7,000 Miles - A Story Of a Young Mans Travels on the Silk Route

7,000 Miles 'Route: the way taken to get from place to place', a grey tedious word. The action of moving from place to place has no story, but is a physical act. Yet just as a person may have a life beyond the word 'living', a word may have meaning beyond the dictionary; a word represents a different story to each person, and the word 'route', represents not the story of a route, but the story …

…spices, slaves, porcelain and silk, all exchanging hands once again, have gone up in value along the way. So too ha my common China silk. Each new colour lingers in my head. Privileged am I to have seen such and to have lived amongst so many peoples from so many places, I am privileged to have travelled the silk route. But for the most part, proud to have lived upon the zenith of the route.