On the Road by Jack Kerouac was the first Beat Generation book I got my hands on and I had never before read a book so vibrant with levity and juvenile wickedness. There is so much hunger for life itself stuffed between those pages, that I wanted to get out there and hit the road right away myself. Word is Jack Kerouac wrote the final draft in only 20 days, taping together sheets of paper so he wouldn’t have to stop writing while typing on his typewriter. Word has it also, that he was on benzedrine all this time, but hey – it worked out great! I have engulfed literature from fellow Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, but following Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady on the road through mid century America, will always be my darling.