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. 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. It recounts the observations and impression which emerged during the trip undertaken by the author in his late fifties. Four hoarse blasts of a ships's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck 88,602 ratings, 4.07 average rating, 6,656 reviews Travels with Charley Quotes Showing 1-30 of 258 What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. Travels With Charley is structured in the form of a travel diary. 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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