On The Road

I just started reading 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac. I was in San Francisco last year and stayed in an area where him and all the beatnik poets lived and worked and partied.

The book is just Jack's account of time he spent travelling from Chicago to Denver to San Fran for no real reason, and he wrote it on one continuous scroll on a typewriter with no paragraphs and barely any punctuation. It's kind of hard to read but it's amazing.

I was reading it on the train the other day and read a page where he's on the back of a farm truck with about 6 other guys (2 hobos, and a few farmers) all just hitching a lift to Denver down route 66. I realised that's what i wanted to be doing right then so i drew this in my sketchbook. looks better in real life, hmm. can't decide if i'm finished with it yet.