[Hoffman912]

kerouac and ginsburg are my favority authors (i had to make a pilgamage to city lights in SF and to big sure last year.. will do again this year). it was kerouac and history books reading about the great migrations, the wagon trains, the 49'ers the native americans.. the desire to see and experience the land we live in that made me want to hit the road..

'So in America when the sun goes down and i sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelieveable huge bulge over the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa i know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and dont you know that God is Pooh Bear? The evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the earth, darkens all the rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, NOBODY knows whats going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty, the father we never found, I think of Dean Mor-ri-ar-ty.'
-On the Road