Podcasts about travels with charley

Clay's and his close friend, Russ Eagle, journey from New Orleans to Shreveport. Then, from Jackson, Mississippi, to Birmingham, Alabama to visit civil rights sites and shrines. John Steinbeck witnessed the appauling white response to the integration of the schools in New Orleans in December of 1960 and was so repulsed by what he saw that he gave up his journey. He simply bolted home to New York City. Clay ends his 2024 Travels With Charley journey by finding a better way to wrestle with the unresolved race issues in America. Russ and Clay conclude that every American should make a journey of this sort. They also learned that the country's race history is much more problematic than they previously knew. 

Guest host Russ Eagle interviews Clay about Phase II of his 2024 Travels with Charley tour. What has Clay learned from retracing Steinbeck's famous 1960 cross-country journey? This time from Bismarck to Seattle, then Monterey, Salinas, and Route 66. Clay describes a few mishaps that have occurred. Plus, a visit to the Sylvia Beach literary hotel in Oregon, the annual Lewis and Clark Cultural Tour, the magnificence of the American continent, and people's reluctance to discuss our paralytic political situation. Finally, the lingering question: uncovering the best gumbo in America? 

Guest Host David Horton of Radford University in Virginia asks Clay for a progress report on his adventure retracing John Steinbeck's “Travels with Charley” journey. Clay was in Middlebury, Vermont, at the time of the interview, still aglow from his interview with Steinbeck biographer Jay Parini of Middlebury College. Topics include the clunky joys of rural AM radio; whether it matters that not everything in Travels with Charley happened precisely as Steinbeck reports; and what Clay is learning along the way. They discuss the changes in America's highways between 1960 and today, including the Blue Highways far away from the Interstate Highway System. Clay talks about some of the other pilgrimages he has made so far in the journey: Jack Kerouac's grave in Lowell, Massachusetts; Thoreau's Walden Pond; and Montauk Point at the end of Long Island where Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders quarantined after their heroics in Cuba.

Clay Jenkinson and special guest host Russ Eagle discuss the first days of Listening to America's Travels with Charley Tour. Clay reports from a campground near Cedar Rapids, Iowa en route to Sag Harbor out on the end of Long Island, New York, to touch base with Steinbeck's starting point for his 1960 journey through America. Clay recounts his wrestling match with an uncooperative bike rack, and other details of getting underway on a twenty-week odyssey around the perimeter of the United States. Russ and Clay talk about Steinbeck's state of mind—and declining health—as he set out in late September 1960, and the ways in which Steinbeck shaped his book Travels with Charley as a literary masterpiece and not just a dry reporting of verifiable road facts. They discuss the place of Travels with Charley in the larger trajectory of Steinbeck's amazing career, and the places Clay will visit on his way to Long Island.

Clay Jenkinson's interview with the distinguished Dutch journalist Geert Mak, the author of In Europe, and also In America: Travels with John Steinbeck. In 2010 Geert Mak and his wife retraced the entire Steinbeck journey in a rented Jeep. After he returned to the Netherlands, Mak wrote a 550-page account of his travels. Though Steinbeck isn't the main theme of In America, Mak fulfills the mission that Steinbeck set out to accomplish—that is, to wrestle with the character and narrative of what Steinbeck called “this monster country.” Clay and Mr. Mak discuss the sheer size of America, Steinbeck's occasional fibs about the exact circumstances of the journey, race relations in America, violence in America, and the current state of the American Dream. It's an amazing and quite moving interview.

Send us a Text Message.In this edition of Oldish Book Club our friend Leslie Ross-Degnan joins us for a lively discussion of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley in Search of America. Steinbeck's story of his trip around America in a camper van in 1960 is a true tale of Oldishness told by a master story teller. What can it tell us about who we are today?Support the Show.Connect with Janet at https://drjanetprice.comYou can email Gregg at gregg@kannoncom.com Gregg wears Tyrol pickleball shoes, the only company that makes shoes just for pickleball. He has been wearing the same pair of Velocity V model shoes for almost a year, and he plays a lot! Click here to purchase Tyrol Pickleball shoes (note, if you purchase Tyrol pickleball shoes after clicking this link Oldish may receive a commission. Thanks for helping to support our podcast!)Comments, suggestion, requests: oldish@kannoncom.comThanks to Mye Kaloustian for the music.

Hometown Radio 01/27/23 6p: Alex Rassipour retraces John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley

Sixty years ago in his most famous speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his vision of an America transformed. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," he said. Was this an argument for a color-blind society, or should racism be thought of as structural and systematic? Ibram X. Khendi, author of the best-selling book, "How To Be An AntiRacist", argues that "the most threatening racist movement" is the drive for race-neutrality. Our guest, Bion Bartning, argues that instead of emphasizing our common humanity, the approach of Kendhi and others lumps people into simplistic racial groupings.Bartning founded the non-profit group, The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR). In its mission statement, FAIR calls for "advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity.""Really, we should be anti-racism, the ideology, and not anti-racist, the individual," Bartning tells us. He calls for a pro-human approach. "There is a burning need to reaffirm the core principles of the civil rights movement... integration, healing divisions and moving forward together as one people." He says that in recent years a different form of anti-racism has emerged that goes against these ideas.Bartning launched FAIR after pulling his two children out of one of New York City's most prestigious private schools because he thought that the new anti-racist curriculum was encouraging kids to look at themselves and others primarily through the lens of race and see the world in a pessimistic, grievance-oriented way. We discuss his personal story and ideas in this episode.Recommendation: Richard has just read and thoroughly enjoyed John Steinbeck's beloved 1962 memoir, "Travels With Charley, In Search of America" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hometown Radio 11/17/21 4p: Alex Rassipour discusses Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley"

"I will never have another vagabonding journey that compares to that first one -- even though I have since traveled to far more exotic parts of the world -- in part because there's something special about embarking on a long-term trip for the first time." --Rolf Potts In this encore episode of Deviate, Rolf and his old friend Jeff Nienaber talk about their 8-month van trip across North America back in 1994, how they prepared for it, and how it differed from current-day #VanLife excursions (5:30); how they exercised on the road, and how the conditions and travel-hacks of van journeys were different for two young men in 1994 (23:30); the route they took through North America, what happened along the way, and how they kept daily journals recounting events (36:00); the experience riding with cops in Houston, celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans, volunteering at a church in Mississippi, meeting girls in Florida, and seeing New York for the first time (51:00); the experience of staying at a Trappist monastery in Massachusetts for one week (1:14:30); visiting National Parks in the American South, Northeast, and West, and memorable books read along the way (1:28:00); and why the trip was life-changing (1:42:00). Van trip preparation and planning links: Digital nomadism (travel lifestyle) #VanLife (travel lifestyle) Composting toilet Blue Highways, by William Least Heat-Moon (1982 book) On the Road, by Jack Kerouac (1957 book) Travels With Charley, by John Steinbeck (1962 book) Vanagon (Volkswagen van) Volkswagen Westfalia (camper van) Trangia (alcohol-burning camp-stove) A (literal) photo album from my 1994 van vagabonding trip (blog post) Links regarding early months of the 1994 trip: 924 Gilman Street (Berkeley punk club) Northridge earthquake (1994 earthquake) "The Mystical High Church of Luck" (Salon essay about Las Vegas) Lollapalooza (music festival) O. J. Simpson murder case (1994 media incident) USCGC Northwind (Coast Guard icebreaker) Bourbon Street (historic street in New Orleans) The Geto Boys, by Rolf Potts (2016 book) Fifth Ward (Houston neighborhood) Cops (TV show) Canton (town in Mississippi) In His Steps (Mississippi Christian outreach ministry) Waffle House (southern restaurant chain) Savannah State (historically black university) Debbie Does Dallas (1978 pornographic film) Tompkins Square (New York park) Trappist monastery experience links: St. Joseph's Abbey (Massachusetts monastery) Trappists (order of Catholic monks) Thomas Merton (Trappist monk and writer) Memento Mori (existential expression) Chant (1994 Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos album) Compline (end-of-day church service) Links regarding the final months of the 1994 trip: Ocala National Forest (protected area in Florida) Shenandoah National Park (Virginia wilderness area) Mount Washington (tallest mountain the northeast U.S.) Arches National Park (Utah wilderness area) Fisher Towers (photogenic cliffs near Moab, Utah) Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey (1968 book) Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (1855 poetry collection) The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham (1944 book) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M Pirsig (1974 book) Uinta National Forest (protected area in Utah) Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming wilderness area) Glacier National Park (Montana wilderness area) Pike National Forest (protected area in Colorado) The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel's 2017 album Lumber. Note: We don't host a “comments” section, but we're happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at deviate@rolfpotts.com.

Doug is making friends with birds while watching the ice melt while Dani wanders through the desert in search of trashy art. This week, we're talking about someone else's life outside with a discussion of the travel memoir, Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck. We reconcile that as writers we are both incorrigible peeping Toms, are fascinated by the empty place, and exist in a society that is sorrowfully stuck in time. Let the trip take you, make a stack of pancakes for a dog on their birthday, and take the long, slow, interesting way. It's Carmel. Find out more about us and follow us: ALifeOutsidePod.com https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJQ5nJr4/ Instagram.com/ALifeOutsidePod Twitter.com/ALifeOutsidePod

In 1960 author John Steinbeck traveled across country in a customized camper with his poodle Charley. He wanted to meet people and get a sense of the country, which he put in his book "Travels With Charley, in search of America." I am still haunted by his stop in New Orleans. He wanted to see the women called "the Cheerleaders" who gathered every day to scream curses at Black children escorted into school by U.S. marshals. One local told him, "Man, oh man, you never heard nothing like it when they get going." And ... that was true. Steinbeck said he heard words that were "bestial and filthy and degenerate." What bothered him also was the theater. "These speeches were not spontaneous," he said. "They were tried and memorized and carefully rehearsed. "The crowd, no doubt, rushed home to see themselves on television, and what they saw went out all over the world." After reading his words I thought about the attack on our Capitol on Jan. 6. I, too, saw the love of the camera in the painted

How does the current state of America compare to that of the 1960's? Has progress been made? Are cities doomed to fail? What great adventure is on your bucket list? Christine and Kyle attempt to answer these questions and more as they dive into John Steinbeck's book Travels with Charley: In Search of America.  ROAD TRIP!In 1960 John Steinbeck embraced van life hitting the open road in a camper-truck accompanied by his poodle Charley. Travels with Charley is a travelogue of that journey with Steinbeck musing on the country he built a career writing about. It was an election year; political and racial unrest was sweeping the nation and Steinbeck made remarkably prescient observations about America that took shape in recent history. The book was published in 1962, the same year Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature and made it to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list.For more Roamers related content follow @blackgoldcabin on Instagram Music provided by Ross Bugden, Without Limits  and Chris Haugen, Tumbleweed Texas

Today we remember that even the famous bleed when we cut them, we take our 1st look at the 9th commandment and encourage the reading of Steinbeck's Travels With Charley.

This month we had to get creative since travel wasn't really in the cards for us.  Since Tami had been to Egypt (two decades ago), she decided to read something to reignite her love of that region of the world, The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters (Barbara Mertz).  Amie kept it more folksy as she metaphorically jumped in the truck with John Steinbeck and his dog, Charley, for a ride across America.

Top 10? Who knows - but here are some myths about #vanlife that need to go away. A moving highway? Yes, it exists and it's called the "Badger." How do the pros do laundry? Infrequently. And we'll explain the difference between solar charge controllers, tell a story of a storm and recommend Travels with Charley.   COVID-19: This the BEST resource https://vanlifers.co/pages/coronavirus   Top 10 Myths #vanlife is gaining popularity and so are the stereotypes. Don't buy them. Tales From the Road What can a storm teach us about perspective? Q&A - Laundry?  Use the laundromat? The Scrubba promises to let you do your laundry in a bag. For a price. https://amzn.to/3bQRegx A mini washing machine. https://amzn.to/3cOJo8v A fine salad spinner washing machine. https://amzn.to/3e6ehp9 Resource RecommendationPerhaps the very first "#vanlife" book, Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck.  Tech Talk: Solar Charge Controllers Will Prowse is the god of solar. Here's is explanation, which is a lot more thorough than mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB6zojol9o0 A Place to Visit: SS Badger The last coal-fired steamship running the United States today. https://www.ssbadger.com/

Steel your resolve, because this week we're looking at man versus nature! If you followed our Desperation coverage, you'll be primed and ready for these different takes on Mother Nature's reign of terror. Listen in for prime selections from Steinbeck's Travels With Charley, Whittier's Snow-Bound, and Melville's Moby Dick

The novelist John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden) was a giant of American literature and a peripatetic traveler. He also wrote one of the most charming of travel books, Travels with Charley, about a journey he took with his dog in 1960 to reacquaint himself with the country he was famous for describing. Steinbeck's widow Elaine accompanied him on most of his travels in the 18 years of their marriage. She was a prolific letter writer all of her adult life, and her letters and snapshots of their trips comprise the heart of a Steinbeck auction scheduled for February 27th in New Jersey. Our guide for this dive into Steinbeckiana is Charlie Potters, a consulting archivist for the auction house Curated Estates. And on My Favorite Trip: more Steinbeck. A couple of excerpts from Travels with Charley.

The latest arts review from the Forefront Festival team. 00:50 - Rich recommends Won't You Be My Neighbor 03:48 - Nate reviews She Waits, the upcoming album by The Gray Havens 07:34 - Zack is in awe of Eurus by The Oh Hellos 10:03 - Cody briefly plugs Joy Electric and then discusses Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us." My uncle Glenn and I are both fans and avid readers of John Steinbeck, as was my grandfather (Glenn's dad) and my mom - so it runs in the family. It was hard to pick just one book, but we suggest that everyone should read Travels with Charley in Search of America, which chronicles Steinbeck's journey across America with his poodle Charley in a truck and a camper. It is a book written with the beauty only Steinbeck could manage. My uncle Glenn and I use this book as a starting point to talk about the psychology of travel, as Glenn has done much travelling himself. We also talk about the US in the days of Steinbeck vs now, and how many of the themes that Steinbeck exposed in his books are still relevant today, almost half a decade later.

We had so much fun on our premier episode of “Book Me, Please!” that we ran a full 90 minutes! In this first episode comedians Klee Wiggins, Tess Barker, and Robert Duchaine sit down with host Cornelius Peter for a fast and funny discussion of some of their favorite books. Books discussed include “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern, “Clan of The Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel, and “Travels With Charley” by John Steinbeck, and in our segment for younger readers, “Helicopter Mom”, ‘Book Show’ owner Jen Hitchcock and her daughter Eleanor recommend “The Castle In The Attic” by Elizabeth Winthrop. But if that’s not enough, we also touch on works by Joan Didion and Russell Brand, as well as Archie Comics, “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger, National Novel Writing Month and much more! 

On a previous show I asked for some feedback on what books you recommend for inspiring someone to adventure.  I’ve had to put my offroading adventures on hold for a bit, but I’m frequently thinking about all kinds of excitement around the world.  I’ve recently finished Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck, started Drive Nacho … Continue reading »

The gang is back and doing some serious drinking. The Lohan Report returns to the podcast. Sam reads"I Am The Cheese," the book he did a book report on in 1978 but never read...or returned. Keith still has not read "Travels With Charley," the book he gave a verbal report on in 1976. Sound man Tom Keith passes away. Andy Rooney's death brings on bad impersonations. Doc waves in planes in Yuma. The guys enjoy some Chilites. Doc does the News. Call the comment line at (206) 309-7308. Post something on the Insignificast Facebook page. Thanks for listening.

John Steinbeck began writing a novel in the summer of 1957 and abandoned it the day after Christmas. I was born 93 days later. Those two events were unconnected before today. Steinbeck wrote the first 114 pages of his novel before setting it aside. He had already completed 25 novels, including The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row. He was 55 years old. Steinbeck went on to publish The Winter of Our Discontent in 1961 and then Travels With Charley in 1962 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature that same year. He died in 1968, having published nothing else. I was 10. “I think he got to a point where he felt he couldn't contribute anymore. And it was too heartbreaking to try. I mean, after awhile you get tired of being under attack. You've got to remember this was a man who had been under attack since he was a young man. He was under attack most of his life. When he wrote The Grapes of Wrath people thought he'd betrayed his own class.” – Thom Steinbeck, (John's son,) Sept. 2009 Thom went on to say his father was “a mythologist… He could take the broad myth and reduce it down to something you could understand and were living right next door to.” The novel John Steinbeck didn't finish was the story of an American who watched one too many westerns on television, then put on a cowboy hat and spurs and went out into the city to correct the injustices he saw all around him. In June, 2010, CBS News announced, “John Steinbeck Archive to be Auctioned. Never-Published Works Among Letters and Manuscripts from Nobel Prize Winner's NYC Apartment.” That CBS story included the following lines: “The writer [Steinbeck] had Ingrid Bergman in mind for Vikings, a film script adaptation of a Henrik Ibsen play that he began in 1954 but later abandoned, which Larson attributed to his restless nature and busy schedule. Another project that was later abandoned was a 1957 reworking of Don Quixote, which Steinbeck titled Don Keehan – The Marshal of Manchon. Bloomsbury's catalog says he had high hopes for it and even considered director Elia Kazan for a movie version with [Henry] Fonda in the lead.” Have you figured it out yet? I bought the unfinished manuscript. It sat a long while in a New York bank while they tried to figure out how to insure the manuscript and transport it. They already had my money so I told'em to just shove it into a UPS envelope. But they wouldn't hear of it. It finally arrived a few minutes ago. I got 6 pages into it, then set it aside just now to write you this note because a wild and funny thought barged into my head: Are you ready?  I'm going to finish it. “You're going to finish reading it?” No, I'm going to finish writing it. “What! Who do you think you are?” I think I'm a ridiculous, middle-aged man who believes it would be fun to write the back half of an unfinished Steinbeck novel. “Are you comparing yourself with John Steinbeck?” No. I just think it would be fun. I like to write and this is America and I bought the manuscript. “You won't be able to publish it.” I don't plan to publish it. “There are hundreds of writers more qualified than you to undertake such an important task.” They should have pooled their money and bought the manuscript. “People will be outraged.” Those people stay outraged anyway. “You should leave Don Keehan unfinished out of respect for John Steinbeck.” “I plan to finish it out of respect for John Steinbeck.” “Are you really going to do this?” Yes, I'm really going to do this. “Can I read it when you're done?” No. You're an obstructionist and a pest. Go away. Wizard Academy students and alumni will have access to Don Keehan, The Marshall of Manchon in the library tower where he will reside. Sorry, but I've got to run. I have more reading to do. Exactly108 more pages. Roy H....