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| An early example of the Great American Roadtrip genre |
"Travels with Charley" would be John Steinbeck's Great American Roadtrip novel, except that it's nonfiction. It recounts Steinbeck's adventures driving Rocinante, a pick-up-truck-camper-van hybrid named after Don Quixote's horse, around the country with his poodle Charley. His objective was simply to observe people living their lives and ruminate on what makes America tick.
I've included a few passages that struck me below.
