Travels with Macy: One Man and His Dog Take a Journey Through America in Search of Home.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Travels with Macy: One Man and His Dog Take a Journey Through America in Search of Home BRUCE FOGLE. Ebury (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $25 (304p) ISBN 0-09-189914-1

Inspired by Steinbeck's classic Travels with Charley: In Search of America, veterinarian and author Fogle (Pets and Their People) documents his journey around the U.S. and Canada with his gulden retriever, Macy, in a travelogue that is long on detail and short on substance. After picking up his 1977 GMC motor home (ordered online) in North Carolina, Fogle travels to Sag Harbor, N.Y., to begin in earnest from Steinbeck's home, continuing northward …