[Windflier]

I'm hard put to name what these unimaginable distances are that we routinely travel today, since we haven't left the earth since Apollo.

We routinely travel between continents, which is something most ancient people could scarcely imagine, let alone do. There was a time when the average human never traveled more than a few tens of miles from their birthplace in their entire lives.

[UCANSEE2]

There was a time when the average human never traveled more than a few tens of miles from their birthplace in their entire lives.

Ahhhhhhh... the good ole' days.

[BeauBo]

“There was a time when the average human never traveled more than a few tens of miles from their birthplace in their entire lives.”

...When my Grandma was a girl, at the start of the last century - even in the most advanced country in the world. It still took a war to get most folks to move much further than that.