Travels With Chaley Day 11

Steinbeck continues his journey through the midwest.  He meets a couple more people who are minor and unimportant characters.  Not too much happened plot-wise.  Steinbeck likes the midwest and thinks the people there are some of the most genuine in the country.  I have to agree with that.

Travels With Charley Day 10

Steinbeck makes his way into the midwest in this installment.  He stops by a seemingly vacant lot in Michigan and is immediately confronted by a man trying to chase him off the property.  Steinbeck manages to bribe the man with a cup of coffee and ends up becoming friends with him.  The next day they go fishing together.  Midwesterners, at first encounter may seem irritable, but are actually quite nice and thoughtful people.

Travels With Charley Day 9

Steinbeck leaves Maine and travels west.  He visits Niagara Falls.  He tries to cut through Canada at one point to save himself a bit of driving, but he is stopped by immigration agents at the border.  The agents tell him that he may bring Charlie into Canada but the U.S. officials will not let him bring Charley back into the U.S.  Steinbeck proceeds to turn around and head back into the U.S. but not before being harassed my U.S. officials.  Steinbeck associates himself with truck drivers here and compares them to sailors.  He discovers that the truck drivers know little of the country other then their stops on their paths.