Travels With Charley in Search of America
The idea that John Steinbeck wrote a travel book is both inspiring and noteworthy. Travels With Charley in Search of America is his attempt to get out and meet the people and see the sights of America is attuned to the idea that we as humans are invariably pulled towards travel. Whatever reason we give for doing it, we seem pulled to want to travel. Early on Steinbeck writes about encountering a variety of people: "I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in e