Excerpt from The Charm of the Road: England and Wales I travel not to go anywhere, but to go, says Stevenson and it was in this spirit, the spirit of the true wanderer, that we took the pleasant pilgrimage recorded in the following pages. To us the destina tion was atrivial detail, left to settle itself each day the joy of the journey was the thing, therein our pleasure lay. We started forth without any pre meditated plan, for a plan is apt to prove a worry to keep, and this was purely a holiday jaunt, and perfect freedom was the essence of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.