Have you tried hitchhiking? It's fun, and the adventure is its own reward, but you have to know how to play it safe. You can't flaunt your worldly goods, including your loaded money clip or wallet...
New York is undoubtedly America's most culturally vibrant city. Throughout its history, it's always been a catalyst for innovation and change, not least in terms of its literary contribution. Today, t...
South Africa is vast and beautiful land, rich in indigenous flora, untamed wildlife and a vast array of geographical climates and landscapes.
Whether you're enjoying the Mediterranean climate of Cape...
There are a lot of challenging trends out there that imperil your quality of life. Are you ready for them?
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years from now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In 1...
Friends and parents and teachers some time or other will tell you the names of some books that you must read before you die.
You may ask what is in a book. What is in a classic novel? Well! Part...
The sixth arrondissement of central Paris is located on the Left Bank of the Seine River. Its area slightly exceeds a square mile (over 2 square kilometers) with a population of 45,000 and sli...
Doctors say there are approximately 2.5 million people with schizophrenia. Of those, typically 10-20% will achieve successful recovery. However, new research suggests that treatment of schizophrenia c...
It the 1950s, when car travel was pretty much the norm, a real mystic developed about taking car trips for vacation. It was during that time, when the interstate highway systems were being develop...
Route 66 first entered the general public conscience in 1939 when California writer John Steinbeck published his novel "The Grapes of Wrath", detailing the westward migration of Oklahoma's...
So you know why you want to write articles. The extra traffic, more sales and more subscribers, but how do you get started?
The scariest thing is a blank page; so when you first start writing art...
This year sees the 50th anniversary of American Poet and Author, Jack Kerouac's "On the road", a popular book about travelling across America in the 1950s and getting a fuller experience of th...
When thinking about places with a modern literary history to visit, there's hardly a city in America that can compete with San Francisco as a beatnik's dream.
Upon a visit to San Francisco, you might...
Reading Jack Kerouac's adventurous travel tale, "On the Road," inspired me to take my own cross-country journey. Sadly, times have changed since the beat generation and hitching rides with st...
California Highway 1 is one of the best drives in North America. It is a great way to see the Pacific Ocean, with the mountains standing majestically on the opposite side. This article gives some poin...
'There Is A Difference Between Enlightenment and Irresponsibility'
(a look back at the life of Ken Kesey)
Ken Kesey, born September 17, 1935 in La Junta, Colorado.
In 1956, while living in...
New York City is well known for the number of artists who live and work there, and the quality of the art displayed in museums and galleries. In this article, I will give some details about the highl...
Greenwich Village is a small section of Manhattan south of 14th Street and west of Broadway. The streets in the Village are named as opposed to being numbered as they are in most parts of Manhattan. T...
America was first settled in the 15th century by the English who went to America to colonise it and set up permanent residence there. It was already inhabited by Native Indians and the colonists fough...
As a sales representative for a large medical supply company, it seems like my entire life is spent behind the wheel. I've crisscrossed the United States more times than Jack Kerouac. Every May, my bo...
Mountain Drive in Santa Barbara in the 1950s was a center of bohemian life, inspired in part, by Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road'. Located in, what was then, an isolated area in the mountains above Montec...
