Overland 3: Seeing Angels

Vivian McInerny
4 min readJan 31, 2023

Memories of traveling overland from Italy to India at age eighteen

Somebody saw an angel.

It was slightly blurry, but still.

We heard about it the next day during our break after the lunch rush. Lucy, John and I poured ourselves coffee then slid into one of the wood booths of the empty restaurant. Lucy whispered.

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Vivian McInerny

Career journalist, essayist, fiction writer, and life-long spirit-quester.