Ideas to travel

IDEAS to travel:

U.S.A. 2-3

INSPIRATION

4-5

THE ROUTE

6-7

H-HIKING

8-9

TO-DO-LIST

10-11

MUSIC

17 December 2012 #1

INSPIRATION:

“A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this toobig world”

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“Nothing behind me,

everything ahe

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2-3

Jack Kerouak

ON THE ROAD

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so st keep on rolling under the stars”

Jean-Louis “Jack” Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. Kerouac became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements. In 1969, at age 47, Kerouac died from internal bleeding due to long-standing abuse of alcohol. Since his death Kerouac’s literary prestige has grown and several previously unseen works have been published. All of his books are in print today, among them: On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, The Subterraneans, Desolation Angels, Visions of Cody, The Sea is My Brother, and Big Sur. Kerouac is generally considered to be the father of the Beat movement, although he actively disliked such labels. Kerouac’s method was heavily influenced by the prolific explosion of Jazz, especially the Bebop genre established by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and others. Later, Kerouac included ideas he developed from his Buddhist studies that began with Gary Snyder. He often referred to his style as spontaneous prose[citation needed]. Although Kerouac’s prose was spontaneous and purportedly without edits, he primarily wrote autobiographical novels (or Roman à clef) based upon actual events from his life and the people with whom he interacted.

ead of me,

the road”

THE ROUTE: Out of hunger and sore limbs,

De

You jump off the train for the lights of You grab a hamburger and head to a bus s last bus to San Francisco left, and your empt you’ll be spending the night in the station o You pull a tattered paperback from your p in to wait.

Get to San Francisco.

Get to San Francisco in defiance of your geography, your ancestry, and the the lonely change rattling sad excuses in your pocket.

Fuel up on pie and diner coffee and mystic visions and the freedom of not knowing what’s coming next except that you’re burning the road to outrun it.

Get going.

July-October

North Platte.

Your ride drops you in a desolate patch of land.

Dawn breaks as you crouch by the side of the highway and scan the horizon for sighs of a car and a way out of here. Silent hours pass in the cold. At this rate, a big event would be a friendly driver and seat to shut your eyes for a few miles. But the only sound is the whistle of a freight train, and riding the rails looks like your only way west.

New York City Chicago Davenport De ver Central City) Laramie Salt Lake no Selma Los Angeles Prescott Alb Louis Indianapolis Columbus Pittsbu

Begin in

4-5

New York City,

an expanse of unknown country between you and your destination. As you watch the first few miles pass out of sight, you wonder about the journey forming before you and what it is, exactly, that you’re looking for.

enver.

station. Only the ty pockets mean or in the street. pocket and settle Tonight comes down to

Chicago.

A cheap motel in You can pry the yellow-stained window open enough to smell the damp street, and hear the bargaining, drinking and laughing echo around the city. This faceless players drift into your dreams as you fall asleep to visions of who you might meet in your travels.

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HITCH-HIKING TIPS: • Take the most used route • Carry a good map • Be in a good, safe spot • Stay positive, smile and laugh • Avoid tight deadlines • Make eye contact with drivers • Making conversation with drivers • Work with the weather • Take comfortable and unisex clothing • Prepair signs • Trust your instinct, when it says no.

• Don’t do anything to offend your driver!

• Keep your stuff organized.

• Use nearest cities to get in/out of big ones.

• Use buses and trains

• Use reflective warning vest while walking along the road at night.

• Finding accommodation in advance: - CouchSurfing. org - HospitalityClub.com - BeWelcome.org • Finding accommodation on the location: tent-hostel-airport-trustworthy driver-petrol station • Do realise that in most countries, hitchhiking directly on the highway is forbidden! So do practice “station hopping”.

TOP MISTAKES: The most common hitchhiker mistakes to avoid if you want to go as fast and efficient as possible: Not communicating clearly You want to go South and end up going East. Make sure where your driver goes before you are heading off.

Overestimating your skills This is a quite nice one for experienced hitchhikers. Starting late in the evening or planning too long distances.

Listening to the driver’s suggestions Everybody does it in the beginning of their career. You are not quite sure about the place you want to be dropped and you listen to the suggestions of your driver (who often hitchhiked himself in the seventies). Never do, you are the hitchhiking expert and you know where to hitchhike.

Losing items on route Hitchhiking requires going into and leaving vehicles, sometimes very quickly depending on the situation.

When getting out of the car always look at the seat to make sure nothing fell out! Also, vice versa, make sure to not accidentally take something that’s not yours, we don’t want to give hitchhikers a bad name! Organize your stuff.

Discussing controversial matters with drivers; losing control over conversation (e.g. Religion, Politics or Sex) Some drivers need to bring over extreme political opinions. As ridiculous or extreme as his points of view may be, agree with the driver, and take it an exercise in diplomacy: laugh it off afterwards!

Two or more people hitch-hiking at truck stops Truckers are often happy to take hitchhikers. But in Western Europe and North America they’re unlikely to pick up two hitchhikers, especially if their colleagues can see them.

White: Hitch of any road Particular la

Falling asleep; too interesting These mistakes cause you are s the talking take

Watching a mo Many truck dri in their truck, a driving. Of cou down, but som for you.

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hhiking is legal on the shoulder of any road including freeways. Blue: Hitchhiking legal on the shoulder except freeways. Green: Stay off the paved section of the road to be safe, freeways are off-limit. Yellow: aws, read up in the respective state article. Red: Hitchhiking is illegal.

falling in love (with the driver) or starting a discussion s make you miss the best hitchhiking spots, besleeping, because of the butterflies, or because es up all of your attention...

ovie while driving ivers nowadays have laptops and DVD players and sometimes they even watch movies while urse you should kindly ask the driver to shut it metimes it happens that he just turns on a movie

6-7

The Law

TO-DO-LIST: Take a several-days tour with a truck-driver

Feel the risk driving motobyke faster than police cars along the Maliby’s seaside

listen to all Get lost in

Get astonished by Aurora on Alyaska

and his life stories

the middle of South Dacota “field of gold” Smoke the Cuba cigar in

Charleston bar

Fall asleep under the voice o

8-9

Find some millioneer and play with him Get known a real American Indian, but do not propose him alcohol!

golf

Go to a week-trip along the Grand Canyon and float down the Colorado river of Niagara Falls

Surf on the We st side!

ROAD MUSIC:

I played the contents of this when I first got it in the early mains one of the most treasure lection even if the CDs don’t g these days. Reading poetry ha pealed to me, but hearing it re revelatory experience if done definitely the case here. These only feature Kerouac reciting without musical accompanime tain some fascinating recordin stream-of-consciousness-style me to choose a favorite, I’m go tell you that these three discs a in their own ways. The first, P Generation, is probably the m ble due in large part to Steve A

1. October in the Railroad Earth 2. Deadbelly 3. Charlie Parker 4. The Sounds 7. Bowery Blues 8. Abraham 9. Dave Brubeck 10. I Had a Slouch Hat Too One Tim 13. The Moon Her Majesty 14. I’d Rather Be Thin Than Famous Bonus track 15. R outh Show) 1. American Haikus 2. Hard Hearted Old Farmer 3. The Last Hotel & 5. Old Western Movies 6. Conclusion of the Railroad Earth 1. American Haik from the UnpublishedBook of Blues Bonus tracks 5. Old Western Movies 6. Co a) San Francisco b) Street Scene c) Money Honey d) Westinghouse ien Midnight: The Sound of the Universe in My Window, Pt. I 4. Lucien

box set to death y 1990s, but it reed items in my colget much rotation as never much apead aloud can be a properly, which is e three albums not g poems with and ent, they also conngs of his unique prose. If you ask oing to cop out and are all equally great Poetry for the Beat most easily accessiAllen’s impeccable

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ivory tinkling. In fact, of all the instrumentalists who worked with Kerouac, I think that this pianist (and all-around entertainer) was the most sympathetic. Allen always seems to provide just the right kind of backing on every performance, whether it’s a reminiscence of the author’s brakeman days (“October in the Railroad Earth”), tributes (“Charlie Parker,” “One Mother,” “Abraham,” “The Moon Her Majesty”), humorous bits (“Deadbelly,” “Goofing at the Table,” “Dave Brubeck” “I’d Rather Be Thin Than Famous”), meditations on transcendentalism (“The Sounds of the Universe Coming in My Window,” “The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception” - how are those for thought-provoking titles?), New York-centric pieces (“Bowery Blues,” “McDougal Street Blues”), or the album’s centerpiece

(“I Had a Slouch Hat Too One Time”), which sounds like a fascinating excerpt from the memoir of an early 20th-century drifter/petty criminal. The fantastic bonus track presents Kerouac reading passages from On the Road andVisions of Cody with full band accompaniment on a Steve Allen Showbroadcast from 1959 and leaves the listener pining for more. Blues and Haikus comes off as perhaps the most stereotypically beatnik-sounding of these three LPs, especially on the opening track “American Haikus,” which consists of alternately deep or amusing short poems separated by brief solos by saxophonists Al Cohn (who also plays piano on A lot of fans rally around Readings on the Beat Generation as the best of this bunch, believing the optimum way to experience the writer’s voice is by itself.

of the Universe Coming in My Window 5. One Mother 6. Goofing at the Table me 11. The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception 12. McDougal Street Blues Readings from On the Road and Visions of Cody (from The Steve Allen Plym& Some of Dharma 4. Poems from the UnpublishedBook of Blues Bonus tracks kus 2. Hard Hearted Old Farmer 3. The Last Hotel & Some of Dharma 4. Poems onclusion of the Railroad Earth 1. The Beat Generation 2. Poems (Fragments) Elevators e) Old Age f) Praised Be Man g) The Sad Turtle 3. Lucn Midnight: The Sound of the Universe in My Window, Pt. II 5. Fanta-

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