In 1960, John Steinbeck decided to set off across America, to revisit the country he’d spent his life writing about, in a speciality made camper that he nicknamed “Rocinante” after the horse in Don Quixote.
With his dog Charley he traveled from Maine to the Pacific Northwest, down into his native Salinas Valley in California, across to Texas, up through the Deep South, and then back to New York. This trip across the country in the twilight of his life resulted in his most personal piece of writing, Travels with Charley: In Search of America.
You can see “Rocinante” at the National Steinbeck Museum in Salinas.
