[extropy-chat] Youth Extension

[Bill K]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:29:59 -0700, Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Robert J. Bradbury
> >
> > Ok, excuse my lack of knowledge -- who/what is Rocinante?
> >
> > R.
> 
> Don Quixote's stallion.  s
> 
Also, perhaps more familiar to US readers:

Rocinante is the truck author John Steinbeck drove across the United
States in 1960. He recounts the journey in Travels with Charley, a
bestseller that initially sold more volumes than any of Steinbeck's
other books and won the 1963 Paperback-of-the-Year Award.

In February of 1990, the Plates family generously offered to donate
Rocinante to the National Steinbeck Center. The truck was shipped to
Salinas and has been in storage. Rocinante was lovingly restored to
its original glory by Gene Cochetti and on April 1, 1998, Rocinante
was moved into its new home in the Main Exhibit Gallery of the Center.

BillK