Dogging John Steinbeck and 'Travels with Charley': My road blog, ten years after
In 2010 I retraced the 10,000-mile trip around the USA that Steinbeck took in 1960 and turned into his iconic travel book. My blog became 'Dogging Steinbeck,' which exposed 'TWC' as mostly fiction.
Chasing John Steinbeck's Ghost
September 23, 2020
Sixty years ago this morning, on Sept. 23, 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle Charley set out from Sag Harbor on the iconic road trip around the United States that would become Travels with Charley in Search of America.
Ten years ago this morning I set out from Steinbeck’s seaside house on the eastern end…