Travel Is Supposed to Be Hard Work
That’s what the word used to mean.
3 min readDec 29, 2019
The word “travel” has an interesting origin. It comes from the old English travailen, from the old French travail, meaning “work, labor, toil, suffering or painful effort, trouble; arduous journey”.
It can be traced further back to Latin roots, including the word tripaliare — “to torture”.
