A road that consists of groves and pastures at the beginning, tents of cedar and snow in the middle, and sand at the end which stretches like a carpet, or rises like hills and towers. Had diviners told us about what we would see before we started our journey, we would have thought it a fairy tale; we wouldn’t have travelled from one country to another, or left one province for another; we wouldn’t have planned to change the means of transport or carried a time machine to live all seasons in one day