[TRAH-vah-y(e)] (n. m.) Travel in the Middle Ages was real work: slow, hard, uncomfortable and dangerous. Pot holes existed then because peasants would borrow cobblestones from roads to patch up their houses. Going 55 mph? It would take two days by horse to cover 55 miles. Forget about travelling at night, lest you got robbed. Most people never traveled more than 10 miles away from their birthplace, their whole life. Travel was such a laborious endeavor the Middle English speakers took the French word for work, travaille, to describe it. Knowing this, bilinguists might have fun calling the travelling salesman, threading miles door-to-door to sell a few wares, a travailleur traveler, a working traveler.