No - but I was in Cannery Row for V-Day with my girl. We did Highway 1 from Mavericks down to SLO and stopped in Monterey for a bit.

"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem , a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."

I looked but could not see Steinbeck, nor Nick Nolte for that matter.

sadness fell over Big Sur on the ride home

but that was until we passed Hearst Castle and I could feel Orson Wells' Citizen Kane 'Rosebud - RoseBud' - and hear the words of Samual Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man

Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

so no grapes and no wrath on V-Day for me - because I was driving but a ton of literay sites

we also passed Henry Miller's place earlier that day as well -

I remember this line from Tropic of Cancer

"I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere nor a chair misplaced. We are alone here and we are dead."

while just over the Santa Lucia Range and Los Pedres Nat'l Forest mice and men are
"a few miles south of Soledad, [where] the Salinas River drops in close to the hill-side bank and runs deep and green."

had I just jumped on the G16 outside of Carmel I might have traveled said space

maybe next time

You're welcome! I really like steinbeck. I really relate to his way of writing and the story grapes of wrath, so touching. It wasn't a story about just one family, but all the families suffereing during that period in history. It makes me glad to have what I have, but I dont think that's what he intended when he wrote Grapes of wrath. It's more of a "about the people book", maybe. I think I'm ging to read Cannery Row next. Doc was a biologist based on a real person, right?