Jack Kerouac, How many have even heard of him?

darsben wrote:
Funny you misspelled his name on this thread but spelled it correctly earlier.
Apparently you do well on the street corner yourself.

If everyone who misspelled something on this forum were standing on a street corner, traffic wouldn't be going anywhere.

What no ambivalent people in your

You obviously don't understand a New England Yank very well. It either is or it ain't. :B

Jack Kerouac, I've heard of him but didn't know much about him.

William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways and
John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley in search of America
are much better travel books for most RVers.

I think of this group as a bunch of part time hobos and gypsies, myself included. It surprises me that so many find a modern day hobo distasteful. Early morning in a crowded misty camp ground evokes visions of a 21st century Great Depression camp, at least to me.

We've actually got him reading "On the Road" on our iPod.

I find it pretty hard to read myself.

If the book was anywhere close to the movie released a couple of years ago I will pass.

In 1969 I had a chance to meet Gary Snyder, who was one of the fire lookout poets in the North Cascades, as was Jack Kerouac. It was an truly interesting evening.

A couple of years ago the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center in North Cascades NP held a workshop on their history, and the poetry that they created.

I have held a fondness for fire lookouts in the North Cascades, and have helped to open and close them for the "fire" season. Spending that much time in that isolated situation, you would need to really like yourself or be philosophical about it.

Crowe wrote:
He's a very familiar person around here due to his living in Lowell. Half hate him, half love him. Half think he was just a drug addict, half think he was a free spirit.

http://www.nps.gov/lowe/historyculture/kerouac.htm

What no ambivalent people in your town?

old macdonald made us work
then he paid us for what it was worth
back on the road again