Reading Travels With Charley: In Search of America

[TheMightyFavog]

I like it. Great book. Sounds like something I'd like to do someday.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear TheMightyFavog!

I read that one a long time ago, and it still lives in my memory!

His writing was so damn vivid and compelling...

The ultimate road trip.

Enjoy!

:hi:

[bif]

2. Is that by Steinbeck?

[TheMightyFavog]

3. Yep.

IIRC, he was RVing before it backame mainstream.

[bif]

5. Wonderful book

I read it a couple years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Jinx!

GMTA!

:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Yup...

[bif]

7. Blue Highways is another great book

By William Least Heat Moon

[enigmatic]

12. I just mentioned that same book!

Great minds..:toast:

[zonkers]

8. I like that book. What a cool snapshot of America. Book made me big love poodles.

[sarge43]

9. Wonderful book. I envy you your first reading of it. n/t

[OmahaBlueDog]

10. Strangely, that is (I think) the only Steinbeck I have not read

[enigmatic]

11. That was the first Steinbeck book I ever read, ironicly

I kept that and Cannery Row in my own backpack of books on my various roadtrips across North America.

Have you ever read "Blue Highways" by William Least Heat Moon? Another classic road trip book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Highways

[Mopar151]

15. 8th gr. Lit class

IIRC. Blame him, Robert Heinlin, Issac Asimov, even ol' Truman Capote (A Christmas Story) for making me suspicious of authority and putting my trust in the real America

[auburngrad82]

18. Blue Highways and Travels with Charlie are both great books

As far as travelogues I like Tschiffely's Ride, about a school teacher who road two Criollo horses from Argentina to the US way back in the 1920s. Hard to find the book. I had to special order it from Amazon and it took forever for it to arrive but it was well worth the wait.

Here's the Wikipedia link to the Tschiffely entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_F%C3%A9lix_Tschiffely

[abq e streeter]

13. Even mentioned in a Beachboys song

California Saga from "Holland"...not that that has much to do with anything, but I love The Beachboys ,and love Steinbeck so just thought I'd throw that in for the hell of it.

[dana_b]

14. I just read this few weeks ago

he's my favorite writer and this book is a joy. He's right - we would all just love to pick up and go for a while.

Rocianthe - a great name for camper too.

[tilsammans]

16. What a book!

One of my all-time faves.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. I read it when I was 13 or 14.

I think it in part gave me an appreciation for long distance road trips a cross country.