The Road

The Road is definitely a physical journey. The protagonists are a father and his son. They are traveling through the charred and barren lands of America, trying to make it to the coast. The father claims that they will be safer once they have reached the coast. The last half of the quote, "The dream can also be one that involves hardship, slogging through a forest, paddling down a river, confronting suspicious people, living in a hostile place, testing your adaptability, hoping for some sort of revelation", fits this book exactly. The father and son must scavenge and salvage anything and everything possible that they come upon. The father trusts no one and believes that no where is safe. While struggling against the winters of the apocalypse, the father must also struggle against his mistrust and rotting mind.