One of the reasons I was excited to travel the California coast from San Francisco to Monterey was because we’d pass Salinas. John Steinbeck and Jack Kerouac wrote about Salinas Valley. Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men was set in Salinas. In 1960, Kerouac published a piece called “The Vanishing American Hobo” in Holiday magazine, which in part said: […]![]()
