What do you recommend?

The Steinbeck journey is still my favorite. I love the way he takes off to explore and learn. He isn't journeying to cure an ill in his existance, he is journeying because he sees that he needs to. He takes off cross-country to learn about people and places. Thats the type of journey I would want to go on. I would want to go alone or with one close friend and just explore. Once me and a friend were so crazy stressed out that we took my car out in the country, and rock-paper-scissor chose which direction we would turn every time we came to an intersection. I would want to do something like that, turn down every appealing road for days and months on end in my journey. I would want to stop at all those tiny little cafes in cute little small towns and order the special, or the waitress's favorite. I think it that would be a very Steinbeckian way of journeying, and I also think it would satisfy my need to make the journey my own.