Why did Mark Twain travel a lot?

　  　Mark Twain, who wrote many stories, traveled quite a lot often because circumstances, usually financial circumstances, forced him to do. He was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835 and moved to Hannibal, Missouri with his family when he was about 4 years old. Most people think he was born in Hannibal but that isn’t true. After his father died when he was about 12, Twain worked in Hannibal for a while as a typesetter on various newspapers and then got a job as a river pilot in the Mississippi. Twain loved this job and many of his books show it. The river job didn’t last, however, because of the outbreak of the Civil War. Twain was in the Confederate Army for just 2 weeks and then he and his whole company went West to get away from the war and gold without much luck, but did succeed as a writer. Once that happened Twain traveled around the country giving lectures and earning enough money to go to Europe. Twain didn’t travel much the last 10 years of his life and he didn’t publish much either. Somehow his travels even when forced inspired his writings. Like many others his writings are from the wealth and diversity of his own personal experiences.