On the Road

On The Road is an autobiographical work describing Jack Kerouac's road-trips across mid-century America. Kerouac was fond of relating the story of how he wrote the book in one three-week typing frenzy onto a 120-foot roll of gold-embossed, 12-ply toilet paper pilfered from Orson Welles' guest-house, but this version of events is probably embellished.


Here is Kerouac's book ...


On the Road: The Original Scroll (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

And here is my own Google-maps version, written in one exhausting session in 2010 on the back of a sheet of refill paper taped to another sheet of refill paper.

On The Road — Memoirs of a Motion-sickness Survivor ...