10/18/11 Sal on the road.

After finishing my reading for the day, a very simple question popped into my mind: "Why is Sal constantly "On The Road"? The obvious answer is he loves to travel and be around friends. But it's much more than that, at least it is to me. Sal is searching for something, and that something is himself. It took me quite some time to come to that realization, considering how relaxed in nature Sal appears to be. When your on the Road, you can be anything you want to be. And it seems as if he's hiding something. Perhaps a traumatic experience from his past, that he can't seem to shake. An experience that not only changed his whole outlook on life, but also made him question his own identity and morals.