yabyum? That's not pig latin is it?? :-))
Sounds like I might like this book!! Thanks for the recommendation Kishman!

What a neat subject for a blog entitled trailhead. I think Dharma Bums is my favorite Kerouac novel. Come to think of it, I've only read two, the other being On the Road; though I've heard Big Sur is good.

I guess now you'll have to review all the literatue related to outdoor activities.

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young jAmericans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by by being kind. . . (page 78) Not a bad world.

Thanks, Carey. I hadn't thought of Japhy Ryder in some time.

" ...while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization."

I applaud you on your wonderful comments of such a fantastic novel by the one and only creator of spontaneous prose. And if you have yet read any poetry by Gary Snyder (most know him by his Dharma Bums name "Japhy Ryder"), i would advise you to do so.

Long live the rucksack revolution!

Alright........I guess you need to loan me this book next....
To Hank: if you could see Carey's bookshelves, you don't know what you've just asked for!!