On The Road, Jack Keroac

"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?- it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by."

"...We'd dig the whole world with a car like this because, man, the road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain't nowhere else it can go - right?" 

I see our trip as a lot like the ones that Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty took in On the Road... only without all the hitchiking, boozing and auto theft. Okay, come to think about it ours is nothing like their trips other than in spirit. There are great lessons to be learned from Kerouac. He knew how to stay in touch with an essential self that thrived in self-indulgence and bacchanalia. Unfortunately such behavior usually leaves some of us passed out on the bathroom floor, but it's a good thing to remember, nonetheless, the beauty in abandon.