If you know me in real life or inferred from the previous entry, I enjoy the idea of road trips. That is not to say I don’t like going on road trips, I actually thoroughly enjoy them, but I find the idea of a road trip to be so much more fun. Imagining driving into the “great unknown” and finding the “something” that you didn’t know you were looking for has such a romantic appeal. I realize this is idealistic but it’s always fun to dream.
As I was browsing through news yesterday, I stumbled upon an interesting yet pointless website with many different covers from Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road“. It is interesting to see how the culture of book marketing has changed while the original text has remained the same. Older American editions have drawings and watercolor paintings, then the trend progressed to photographs and finally, overcame representative, in general, art and focused more on the title.