Travel in 2014 is fast and fairly safe. Cheap prices can be found on the internet. Compare our mode of travel to the ancient Romans. Walter Schneidel, a historian from Stanford University, “created the interactive ‘Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World’ that lets you explore the Empire, and see how long it would have taken – and how much it would have cost – to travel the world in 200 CE. ”
