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# Travel, Truth, and Time
- URL: https://www.adamsowards.net/travel-truth-and-time/
- Published: 2026-10-19T15:48:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-19T15:50:19.000Z
- Description: Re-reading Travels with Charley on a National Parks Pilgrimage
- Author: Adam M. Sowards
- Tags: essays, john steinbeck, national parks

"Travel, Truth, and Time: Re-reading *Travels with Charley* on a National Parks Pilgrimage," *The Limberlost Review: A Literary Journal of the Mountain West* (20026-2027): 389-96.

> I reached redwood country, about 100 miles south of the national park, along the Avenue of Giants. The sun, still high in the afternoon sky, disappeared under cover of these trees. I slowed and gazed. After a few minutes, I noticed a dumbstruck smile had frozen on my face, a visage that students once thought permanently a scowl. At the campground and on subsequent walks beneath the soaring canopy, I circled stumps, rewinding time not only to when local mills clanged loud enough to penetrate the green quiet but also to a time before America, but when the Prophet Muhammad preached and those stumps were seedlings.

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