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. We find after years of experience that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

~ John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley