Time Traveling for Nomads

This week in my newsletter The Perennial Nomad: For Those Who Wander with Intent I discuss the value of visiting historical sites while traveling.

The concept of time travel has intrigued humankind for centuries. H.G. Wells popularized a device that could travel through time in his classic novella The Time Machine, and since then storytellers have come up with all sorts of permutations of the idea. Recently Marvel Studios has even gotten into the act with a number of films drawing on the multiverse theory of quantum physics. However, that’s not the type of time travel I’m referring to here. For a perennial nomad, time travel is a much simpler but no less intriguing process. It involves journeying to and becoming absorbed in museums and monuments and suchlike places. A sign I encountered at the Burke Museum in Seattle explains it thusly: “Objects speak to us and for us. We often think of them as living beings – their lives shape our own. With the help of objects, we can imagine the lives of people who lived before us. And, if we listen closely, our relationships with objects tell us something about ourselves.” Many museums highlight objects and artifacts from the past, and some even foretell the future, such as the exhibit called “Space: Exploring the New Frontier” at the Museum of Flight in south Seattle.

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