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Me voici de retour au milieu
de nulle part -
Du moins je crois que oui
I'm back here in the middle
of nowhere -
At least I think so
Jack Kerouac (Le livre des haïku)
* Une fois que c'est écrit, pourvu que cela soit lu, c'est comme si c'était dit.
Why explain ?
bear burdens
In silence
Pourquoi expliquer ?
porte les fardeaux
En silence
Jack Kerouac
“...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live..." Jack Kerouac from "On The Road."
Shot with the Olympus E-M1 in Rockport, Massachusetts USA.
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere.”– Jack Kerouac.
My other passion is hiking. It's good for the body and the soul.
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“…la mayor parte del tiempo estábamos solos y nuestras almas se mezclaban cada vez más hasta que se nos hacía terriblemente difícil decirnos adiós.”
Jack Kerouac: "En el camino".
Al oeste de Hanksville, Utah, USA.
[ Train tunnel, too dark
for me to write : that
"Men are ignorant" ]
Jack KEROUAC - Le Livre des haïku
[ Tunnel ferroviaire, trop sombre
pour que j'écrive : que
"les hommes sont ignorants" ]
LACPIXEL - 2024
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“La vida debe ser rica y llena de amor; de lo contrario, no sirve de nada, no sirve en absoluto, para nadie”.
Jack Kerouac.
Cerca del mirador de Voipir, a los pies del glaciar.
Parque Nacional Villarrica, Región de la Araucanía, Chile.
This restored flophouse in San Luis Obispo’s historic Railroad District was home to Jack Kerouac in 1953 when he worked as a brakeman on the arduous San Luis Obispo to Santa Margarita run.
Neal Cassady never published a book in his life. Yet he’s considered one of the most prominent figures of the Beat Generation — and a crucial influence on the work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
After passing through New York City in the 1940s, he inspired the character of Dean Moriarty in Kerouac’s On The Road and was called the “secret hero” of Ginsberg’s Howl. Kerouac was so enchanted by his encounter with Cassady that he soon drove out to Denver to see him. This would be the start of several road trips that Kerouac and Cassady took together, some of which lasted months. And when Kerouac penned his famous work, On The Road, he based the character of Dean Moriarty on Neal Cassady, and the many road trips they took together in Neal's Hudson.
From the Doobie Brothers song
Neal's Fandango
Well, a travelin' man's affliction makes it hard to settle down
But I'm stuck here in the flatlands while my heart is homeward bound
Goin' back, I'm too tired to roam, Loma Prieta my mountain home
On the hills above Santa Cruz to the place where I spent my youth
Goin' back, I'm too tired to roam, Loma Prieta my mountain home
On the hills above Santa Cruz to the place where I spent my youth
Well it was Neal Cassady that started me to travel
All the stories that were told, I believed in everyone of them
It's a windin' road I'm on you understand
And no time to worry 'bout tomorrow when you're followin' the sun
And a little Travelin' music by the Doobie Brothers:
Hi everyone trust you are all fine.
Since my last post I have travelled down quite a few American and Canadian roads. Had a fine time, we were lucky with the weather and just about saw the peak colours of the fall in New Hampshire. Met lots of friendly people on both sides of the border and got home safe. I have a ton of photographs to work through when I get my garden sorted
This particularly bit of road was in Northern Maine near Jackman not to far from the Canadian border.
On the last full day of the holiday I paid my respects to the American writer Jack Kerouac who is buried at the Edson Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was pleasing to see that the town of Lowell had celebrated Jacks life in a number of ways in the city. Certainly he is a not America’s finest writer but in On The Road he celebrated the sense of boundless freedom that was very influential in England in the sixties. Its not a bad thing to have written on your gravestone . “ He honoured life “
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FOR TAKING THE TIME TO WRITE A COMMENT IT’S MUCH APPRECIATED AND SO MUCH MORE INTRESTING THAN JUST GIVING A FAVE
“The sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom.”
– Jack Kerouac (American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry, but raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts)
This photo was taken in 2013 during my previous Project 365…please visit my album for this “REMASTERED” Project 365 as I revisit each day of 2013 for additional photos to share!!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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That moment . . . that moment when something was in your life for years & then one day you looked & realized you love ... or maybe even in love. Don’t know what happened to me that July but I know I’ve never felt like that before.
“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-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
-Jack Kerouac
Onward. :) Happy Monday!
There is a certain beauty in seeing the world around you as an empty canvas, and whatever you want to do or be- put your heart to it and make it happen.
Theme: Power In Words
Year Fourteen Of My 365 Project
to me a mountain is a buddha. think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.
"remember that book i told you about the first sip is joy and the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
"The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain't nowhere else it can go - right?"
"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility."
- Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Finishing our adventure and heading home, we stopped at Lonely Dell Ranch in Lee's Ferry. This is Lee's Ferry Road leaving Lonely Dell Ranch and heading back past Cathedral rock formation to Navajo Bridge and US Highway 89A.
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The early Mormon pioneer - John Doyle Lee and his wives lived in this area. One wife is said to have remarked - when first seeing this site - that this was such a "Lonely Dell" and the name stuck. The site is comprised of several buildings, an orchard a cemetery and restored irrigation projects.
The Lonely Dell Ranch and Lees Ferry Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is managed by the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Lee's Ferry provided the crossing of the Colorado River until 1929 when the original Navajo Bridge was built. Many Mormon settlers in Arizona made the trip to the LDS Temple in St. George Utah to solemnize their marriage and this route became known as "The Honeymoon Trail".
Lees Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch Landscape
Zane Grey wrote about the Lee's Ferry crossing in The Last of the Plainsmen (1908):
I saw the constricted rapids, where the Colorado took its plunge into the box-like head of the Grand Canyon of Arizona; and the deep, reverberating boom of the river, at flood height, was a fearful thing to hear. I could not repress a shudder at the thought of crossing above that rapid.
Navajo Nation 2025
Where NYC & SF meets Rome ♥️ . . . Since 2007 or 8 every time I’m in that neighbourhood I go through the weirdest feeling of Deja Vu . . . I love love love Cafe Reggio. I feel as if that moment between cappuccino & poetry there is the closest to nyc nirvana
Books, streets & coffee are my favorite. And live music. Not always traveling is an option; not always life spoils with miracles, but a stack of books is a world of its own, and it can absorb just enough to heal the wounds.
© 2007 Marcos Duarte
Eu só confio nas pessoas loucas, aquelas que são loucas pra viver,
loucas para falar, loucas para serem salvas, desejosas de tudo ao mesmo tempo,que nunca bocejam ou dizem uma coisa corriqueira,
mas queimam, queimam, queimam, como fabulosas velas amarelas romanas explodindo como aranhas através das estrelas.
Jack Kerouac
I don’t think Kerouac thought much about Sedro-Woolley, but he did think of it enough to mention it in three books; one of the books being ‘Desolation Angels’ in which this picture is named for. In fact, I can surely say with certainty that Jack Kerouac passed nearby this very spot in which lil’ Arly is set, but if only for a short while; he was very well known for just passing through.
I just re-read some of ‘Desolation Angels’ (sections 62 and 63 of the chapter Desolation in the World), and Sedro-Woolley hasn’t changed much... broads, booze, and broad-shouldered brutes. I think the only thing different is we haven’t a shoe store anymore! I know which bank he cashed his checks in. I know what bar he spotted the old man in. And I know the name and location of the shoe store. It’s kind of sad... I would like to buy a pair of shoes that feel like I am “walking in heaven”, but I want to buy them in downtown Sedro-Woolley too.