![]() We find after years of struggle that we not take a trip a trip takes us. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. I set this matter down not to instruct others but to inform myself.A journey is a person in itself no two are alike. ISBN-13: 9780140053203 Summary To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the lightthese were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, in September 1960, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. Steinbeck travels on highways and backroads with his French poodle Charley, has meals with truckers, sees bears in Yellowstone, and runs into old friends in San Francisco. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. Travels with Charley: In Search of America John Steinbeck, 1962 Penguin Group USA 224 pp. ![]() Four hoarse blasts of a ships's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age.In middle age I was assured greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. ![]() “When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. ![]()
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