On The Road

We can’t do anything that hasn’t been done before. As the date of our departure slowly creeps closer I see that there is in the making a film based on the novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac. A book I am very fond of and read several years ago right before I hit the road and moved from New Hampshire to Arizona. The making of this film has reignited that passion I had for the book and which I obtained from a friend of my parents. The book was a tattered messed and was even more so when I got done with it. I ended up shipping the book to my friend Lisa who lived in Boston at the time. Lisa and I have always shared a common desire for the unconventional.  So being with out on the road all these years I recently made a purchase with the miracles of modern technology and had a copy of on the road shipped to me via the internet. It is weathered and obvious where the previous reader had folded it while reading  but the cover picture is more modern than my last. Never the less it has a wonderful forward that enlightens  you to  Kerouac’s life before and during the writing of one the road.
All this has sparked a greater appreciation of what Amy and I are about to embark on and it gives me that deep inside feeling that what we are doing is right. the impetus  for what set Kerouac on the road, that attraction to material and societal freedom and the possibilities it may contain are the same for me more than 60 years later.
I wrote the previous paragraphs about a month ago and as I read on the road I’ve come to find the book to be very poorly written and reads more like a drunkards dairy of all the parties he’s partaken in.
On another note we are about seven weeks out from our departure and things are slowly coming together. The trip has now included our friend Brett who also happens to be my ex-boyfriend. Most people would probably never want to go on the road with an ex of theirs but Brett and I have always been a little different about the way we do things.  I should be off to work now next post should have videos included.-poops