Kerouac: ‘I Rode Around This Country Free as a Bee’

Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 07.17.09 | 2:31 PM ET

In a new Poetry Foundation essay, Aram Saroyan looks back at his time with the Beats. “God, man, I rode around this country free as a bee,” he remembers Kerouac saying of his “On the Road” days. “We had more fun than five thousand Socony Gasoline Station attendants can have.” (Via The Book Bench)