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 â [ Nellie Bly â [ Raymond Carver Dorothy Day â [ Marcel Duchamp â [ Dolores Garcia/Emma ''Grandma'' Gatewood â [ Mohandas GandhiPeter Matthiessen â [ William Least Heat MoonJohn Muir â [ Robert Pirsig â [ Sir Ernest Henry ShackletonHenry David Thoreau â [ Father Zossima â [ Â and others