Chapter 42
Travelling is another world. Another kind of existence. The first few days and weeks in Asia were so exotic and so free that it was as if nothing else ever existed.
Milly and I stayed in some terrible places, full of cockroaches and weird smells and odd people. We ate the strangest food we could find and faithfully visited all the highlights in our Lonely Planet guide. We became part of the flow of travellers existing almost in a parallel world from normal life. People endlessly passing one another as they headed for new destinations. We shared information, tips and tricks with fellow backpackers. What to avoid, what sights to see that the travel guides didn’t know about. It was a new community and a new way of life.
"We could do this forever," Milly said one day, as we were
