We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us….relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is a like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
(on packing too much) I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless…Also I laid in a hundred and fifty pounds of those books one hasn’t got around to reading – and of course those are the books one isn’t ever going to get around to reading.
[best place to eavesdrop are the bars and churches] Early rising men not only do not talk much to strangers, they barely talk to one another. Breakfast conversation is limited to a series of laconic grunts.
-Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
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