On the Road: Cheyenne, Wyoming
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On the Road: Cheyenne, Wyoming
On the Road: Cheyenne, Wyoming
posted by Michael L. Hess | 11:43 AM
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Literature often describes places we are curious about, regardless of whether we know them or not. This blog maps the journeys laid out in selected books and offers reflections corresponding to the various stops. Happy traveling!
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4 Comments:
Looking good, Mike. Kudos! I love Mardi Gras and can't wait to get back asap. Wyoming is a wild open place, that's for sure. My sister Linda and I stayed there Kerouac-style on the way to San Francsico, back in the 80s. Lots of bikers. Cheers,
Erik
Wow. Terrific idea, exceptional execution, kudos indeed! It's always fascinating to identify the point at which one's cultural self-image intersects one's romanticisation of that self-image. Though I'm not sure if, after allowing ourselves the indulgence to cross that line, we go back to "beat," or resign ourselves to a state of being "beaten."
-- Mtte.
In the summer of '83 I hitched up to Cheyenne from Denver with a friend and landed smack in the middle of Frontier Days. Thirty five years later it seemed exactly the same as Kerouac had described it.
It was amazing, exciting and sad all at the same time.
And yes, erik is right, lots of bikers. That would be the only big difference between then and now.
If you're interested, I wrote about this experience, and many others in my novel, A Voice Above The Din. (Click on my name and it will take you to my blogs if you want to check it out. Or hit up Amazon or BN.)
This is a great posst thanks
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