I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every state I visited. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation - a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from Here. The best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. For this reason I racked a shotgun, two rifles, and a couple of fishing rods in my truck, for it is my experience that if a man is going hunting or fishing his purpose is understood or even applauded.Ī dog, particularly an exotic like Charley, is a bond between strangers. I was told that a stranger’s purpose in moving about the country might cause inquiry or even suspicion. Memory is at best a faulty, warpy reservoir.Ī projected journey spawns advisors in schools. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip a trip takes us. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. A journey is a person in itself no two are alike. It has a personality a temperament, individuality, uniqueness. Quotes from Travels with Charley In Search of America by John Steinbeck.Ī trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys.
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