He drove through the Badlands, basked in the majesty of the giant redwoods, and traversed the desert southwest. Steinbeck's journey took him along the back roads of New England, across the New York State Thruway and into the Midwest. ![]() His goal was to rediscover America and reconnect with her people. That fall, he set out with his beloved dog, Charley, in a specially designed pickup truck/camper (named Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse) on a journey across the country. In 1960, Steinbeck was living on the Long Island Sound, approaching his sixtieth birthday, and feeling out of touch with a country he'd been writing about for decades. ![]() ![]() Listening to Travels with Charley reminded me not only of how much I love John Steinbeck's writing, but how much I enjoy travel writing in general.
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