The Spalding Inn is in the White Mountains near Lancaster, N.H., where Steinbeck said he camped on a farm but didn’t.
Steinbeck ate dinner at the exclusive Spalding Inn — after he was given a
coat and tie to meet the dress code.
“Travels Without Charley”
In "Travels Without Charley," Bill Steigerwald's road blog from the fall of 2010, he detailed how he discovered John Steinbeck’s 1962 nonfiction classic "Travels With Charley" is not a true and honest account of the cross-country trip he made in the fall of 1960. The daily account of Steigerwald's 11,276-mile trip, which first appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, starts in Sag Harbor, N.Y.