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...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of strugg...

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There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning an...

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