Reading "Playlist" and John Steinbeck's Take on Travel

Just Completed: “P” section of the Dictionary--a Scrabble game gone terribly wrong. No, actually I was looking for a specific word and just got engrossed. How weird am I that I start reading the dictionary and get stuck?

Just Started: Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck (non-fiction travelogue by the great American author later in life)

Excerpt from Travels with Charley:

"We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the-glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like a marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. I feel better now, having said this, although only those who have experienced it will understand it."

--John Steinbeck

(Timely for those of us traveling for Conference.)