To travel is to confront the fleetingness of time. Those of us who love to trek around the world have a lot in common with the servant of a fabled Middle Eastern tale who, after meeting Death in the market goes to his master and asks to borrow his fastest horse to flee to Basra just to find that his attempts to dodge the Grim Reaper were for naught -in other words, we usually try to elude our own shadows and outrun time while heading blindly to that final frontier. Description in Spanish: Viajar es enfrentarse a la fugacidad. Los que amamos viajar somos como ese criado de Las mil y una noches que, asustado tras haber visto a la Muerte en el mercado, pide prestado un caballo a su amo y escapa (viaja) a Basora, solo para reunirse alli con la Parca, con quien tenia una cita sin saberlo; es decir, solemos ser personas que intentamos correr mas que nuestras propias sombras. Huimos del tiempo que nos persigue, en fin, solo para dirigirnos ciegamente hacia la ultima frontera. ROSA MONTERO