A stylized route of the Western Flyer on Ricketts and Steinbeck's journey to the Sea of Cortez.

A dataset with one linestring segment per destination. Note that the route is fictionalized from the book and tweaked to be aesthetically pleasing, rather than nautically accurate.

Usage

route

Format

An sf tibble, with a single attribute that can be joined to the places data set (if desired).

destination

The place name used in the book. Can be joined to places$location_english to pick up dates of travel.

geometry

An sf linestring, running from the previous destination to the current one.

Examples

data(route)

places <- sf::st_drop_geometry(places)
route <- dplyr::left_join(
  route,
  sf::st_drop_geometry(places),
  by = c('destination' = 'location_english')
  )


library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
 geom_sf(data = route, aes(color = date_arrive)) +
 theme_minimal()