Hey Team,

I had a pretty strange New Years (which I suppose should be expected by now). I wasn’t able to get in touch with the people I actually came out to New York to meet up with but I did manage to meet up with one of my old roommates from college (sounds like something from a preppy movie).

I wanted to check out Times Square and the ball drop (since it’s so iconic and all) so I wandered over in that direction around 1o’clock and there was already an ENORMOUS throng of people. There was still some room to get a good spot…if I were that guy that was capable of standing around for 11 hours waiting for something exciting to happen.

So, I went wandering in search of excitement and found one of those things that I think is incredible and that precious few others will even care exists. At the New York Public Library they had an exhibit on Jack Kerouac that had the actual scroll that he wrote the first draft of “On The Road” on in 1951.

The quick story: Kerouac wrote the first draft of “On The Road” in three weeks on 10 twelve foot rolls of paper that he More >