In Big Bend National Park, six days after the tourists arrived in the U.S., an undercover park ranger spotted the white Tahoe in campsite #16. The ranger pitched a tent beside the five tourists, 20 yards away, where he could safely observe them. The park straddles the Texas-Mexico border, and over the serrated brown mountains the sun was setting and the moon hung faintly in the sky like a watermark. One of the tourists had angled his camera atop a tripod to take a photo. Posing as a fellow camper, the undercover ranger chatted with the photographer, remarking on the pleasantness of the 80-degree weather, and the beauty of the desert. At night, the five foreigners slipped into their tents. At 2 a.m., the ranger bugged their Tahoe with a GPS tracking device.
I remember the feverish week when I read “Love In the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez and my heart travelled a thousand miles all while sitting there drinking coffee.
| Real-life person | Character name |
| Jack Kerouac | Ray Smith |
| Gary Snyder | Japhy Ryder |
| Allen Ginsberg | Alvah Goldbook |
| Neal Cassady | Cody Pomeray |
| Philip Whalen | Warren Coughlin |
| Locke McCorkle | Sean Monahan |
| John Montgomery | Henry Morley |
| Philip Lamantia | Francis DaPavia |
| Michael McClure | Ike O'Shay |
| Peter Orlovsky | George |
| Kenneth Rexroth | Rheinhold Cacoethes |
| Alan Watts | Arthur Whane |
| Caroline Kerouac | Nin |
| Carolyn Cassady | Evelyn |
| Claude Dalenberg | Bud Diefendorf |
| Natalie Jackson | Rosie Buchanan |
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