the ultimate Map Of Literature’s nice American road trips

it is late July, and if you haven’t already deliberate your summer trip, may we suggest taking a cross-country street-commute? The sort of basic American holiday immortalized in novels ranging from Jack Kerouac’s On The highway and Ken Kesey’s the electric Kool-aid Acid take a look at to Mark Twain’s Roughing It and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild?

Over at Atlas Obscura, author Richard Kreitner has posted an obsessively exact map of literature’s most epic highway trips, protecting over 1,500 locations unfold from Hawaii to Mexico, from Maine to Portland. recall to mind is as inspiration for a final-minute (and oh-so-bookish) trip.

A dozen novels are represented, ranging from rather quick jaunts (Zen and the art of bike upkeep by using Robert Pirsig) to epic up-and-down-the-united states treks (John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley). nice literary road journeys that are either day trips (concern and Loathing in Las Vegas) or “defiant of cartographical order” (Lolita) have been excluded.

Atlas Obscura does now not declare whole cartographical accuracy. “i encourage forbearance in case you, a hermit in the mountains of Wyoming, to find that i’ve pinned Mark Twain’s reference to Horse Creek in a spot the place it might no longer have been, or for those who, a denizen of what Tom Wolfe moderately unkindly known as ‘the Rat lands’ of Mexico, to find my estimation of the ideal vicinity of Chicalote, Aguascalientes, relatively inexact,” Kreitner writes, his tongue planted firmly in cheek. Accuracy aside, there may be unquestionably sufficient here to maintain a dharma bum busy for the following decade.

check out the full map right here.