So my journey would be just to see where the road takes me.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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Any road trip I would take would most likely be similar to Sal's journey in On The Road. The main reasoning behind Sal's travel is his thirst to be with "mad" people and just go across the country and experience an invigorating sense of life. That's what I want. I want to just be around unusual/out of the norm folk, work a random job somewhere far away from my actual home, travel with and get to know people I've never met before, and possibly fall in love with some one that I meet along the way (but then again Sal never REALLY fell in love, did he?). I wouldn't really know exactly where I'm trying to get to. It sounds like the ultimate hippie experience but I'm all for it. Sure, it's a risky situation but as T.S. Eliot once said, "The journey not the arrival matters."
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I feel the same way. I don't think anything has compared to our first reading On the Road about Sal's adventures across the country. He acctually goes across the country and not just within a certain area, as some of the other road trip movies do. However, the key interesting feature lies in the beauty that he has a goal, he wanted to make a living on the west coast, but he allowed the journey to take him there. He worked from stop to stop, never waiting too long before he would move out to the next place fate took him. I want that aimlessness becuase it's something I don't have now. The journey I would take would take me to places i don't know about, by means I can't anticipate, and meet new interesting people.
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