"Here I was at the end of America --no more land--and now there was nowhere to go but back. I determined at least to make my trip a circular one: I decided then and there to go to Hollywood and back through Texas to see my bayou gang; then the rest be damned"
Sal seems to be so obsessed with traveling West that he doesn't want to stop after he has reached the ends of California. He is so obsessed with discovery that he has to make everything he does into an adventure. There does not seem to be something that can satisify his appetite for spontaneity as he desperately reaches for more options that can furthur amplify his journey experience. It seems like the only thing that can stop him from his amazing adventures is his dwindling money supply. Sal seems to have a hard time facing reality and he uses the road trip to circumvent it. I think his reason for the road trip as a means for writing enlightenment is bogus. This reason is more of a byproduct from the true reason which comes from his desire to escape from his real world problems.
Why would he want to go see the bayou gang even though he hardly talked to Dean and Carlo in California?
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