Excerpt from The Road and the Inn My plan of travel was to have no plan. A plan often proves but a bugbear, for, having made it (perhaps with much trouble and consulting Of maps), you feel bound to carry it out, else what is the good of it? Moreover, a plan robs one of the freedom that is the very essence and charm of a true holiday. Each day my destination was Anywhere! My joy was in the journey; I had no idea when I set out in the morning where the evening would find me, nor had I a care. Could any one travel less fettered? I simply determined to follow those roads that appeared to me from time to time to be the most attractive, careless Of direction, or of distance accomplished, taking good maps but no guide-books, for I would go nowhere nor see any thing under dictation being content to explore the country haphazard, trusting to the fortune of the road for what I might see; indeed Menander, the ancient Greek, declares chance contrives better than we ourselves. 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.