Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on its floor. I stopped where people stopped or gathered, I listened and looked and felt, and in the process had a picture of my country the accuracy of which was impaired only by my own shortcomings.

The speaker describes traveling in an old bakery wagon and stopping wherever people gathered. By listening, looking, and feeling, he gained a picture of the country through direct experience. This detail emphasizes an informal, close-to-the-ground way of traveling, not a preference between vehicles or a point about baked goods.

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