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[This discussion is a part of a large essay in which I analyzed a series of travel narratives (hodpeorics), from the perspective of the gradient of truth.] I would like to start with a cuartete by Antonio Machado, one of the most engaging and terse comments on travel in modern poetry, underscores some of the crucial elements of travel writing. A journey is a physical displacement that involves doing, viewing and thinking, the most fundamental human activities.