Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a
new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an
entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament,
individuality, uniqueness. 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. 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.
John Steinbeck
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