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I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

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When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

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Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

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Beware thoughts that come in the night.

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Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

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The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

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I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.'

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The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.

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Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 27th, 1939

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