Book excerpt: Where do our journeys take us? What do we leave behind? What do we carry with us? How do we find our way? You are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity, Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them--from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death. Edward Abbey - Nellie Bly - Raymond Carver - Dorothy Day - Marcel Duchamp - Dolores Garcia - Emma "Grandma" Gatewood - Mohandas Gandhi - Peter Matthiessen - William Least Heat Moon - John Muir - Robert Pirsig - Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - Henry David Thoreau - Father Zossima - and others