What is a Journey? What is a story? Do you think a journey and a story are the same thing?

Answer 1

Characters in a story undergo a journey, either an outward journey through space and/or time, or an inner journey of self-discovery. Often the journey contains both. In fact a story is the retelling of what happens on the journey.

Check out Joseph Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces. He wrote extensively on the subject.

Here's a nifty graphic illustrating the hero's journey:
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/heroj.html

And check out this comparison of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to Luke in Star Wars:
http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/dial/oz/femoztax.html

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story