SEAN DUFFY: Take a Great American Road Trip and rediscover our amazing country

"[W]e do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

- Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

In 1960, American novelist John Steinbeck set out with his dog Charley in a camper on a journey to rediscover the heart of the nation. Though he had spent his career writing about our country, he understood that to truly know and love America, he needed to see America. "I had not heard the speech of America, smelled the grass and trees…seen its hills and water, its color and quality of light," he wrote at the time.