Claude Levi-Strauss on the complexity of the travel experience

“Travel is usually thought of as a displacement in space. This is an inadequate conception. A journey occurs simultaneously in space, in time and in the social hierarchy. Each impression can be defined only by being jointly related to these three axes, and since space is itself three-dimensional, five axes are necessary if we are to have an adequate representation of any journey.”
–Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (1955)