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)

Tags: Jack Kerouac, Road Trips, Literary Travel

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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