Like John Steinbeck and Charley, I am happily exhausted. The two really did go across country in a pickup truck covered with a cab. The journey started off up in Maine and ended at home, New York. I enjoyed Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck because of the author's ability to nab the seemingly most significant thoughts to share about a place. In Maine, he talked about the Canucks. This is a group of ethnically related people like, I guess, the Cajuns. Then, way down in Texas, John Steinbeck shared how the really rich people dress down. The worn boots, worn blue jeans meant that guy had real cash, the big bucks. I thought that was interesting. However, Mr. Steinbeck had no great love for Texas. He wrote some people get lost there and never find there way out again. It seems Texas just sprawls all over the place like an unwound ball of thread. Down in Alabama and Louisiana, he wrote about race issues. I could tell he was trying to handle this part of the book very delica