ABSTRACT
One form of Deep Travel time is an entirely modern invention: jet lag. Before jet airliners began flying across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1958, it was impossible for travelers moving east or west to "outrun the sun"—or, at any rate, to cross more than two time zones while still awake. "Jet lag," Pico Iyer says, "remains one of the great unmentionables of long-distance travel, as if not to speak of it is to help it go away." Jet lag doesn't always show you what you want to see—which may help explain why "irritability" and "mild depression" are listed as symptoms. Whenever we enter Deep Travel and, in this "larger awareness," attune ourselves to a greater sample of the changing possibilities around us, surprising bits of information we might not ordinarily register flow into the mind.
