Hop On the Bus, Cassady

First in my series of Tribute to Beat Poets Travel Bugs, this one is going to hop "on the bus" of the Community Bug, Going to Uranus and Huntin' Klingons. This bug is in honor of one of my favorite real life characters, Neal Cassady. NEW GOAL! ALL BUGS RACE HOME to Houston, TX There are geocoins involved for those who help our bugs the most. The one who gives a bug the biggest jump (mileage) towards home will win a coin, and anyone who delivers a geocoin to a Houston event or cache will be in a drawing for one. Please help us get our bugs home!

Neal Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was an icon of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known for being characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's classic "On the Road".
Cassady appeared as the characters Dean Moriarty and Cody Pomeray in many of Kerouac's novels. Ginsberg mentioned him as well in his ground-breaking poem, Howl ("N.C., secret hero of these poems...").
Cassady first met Ken Kesey during the summer of 1962, eventually becoming one of the Merry Pranksters. In 1964 he served as the driver of the bus Furthur, which was immortalized in Tom Wolfe's book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. He later played a prominent role in the explosive California psychedelic scene of the 1960s.
Legacy and Influence
Cassady lived briefly with the Grateful Dead and is immortalized in the Dead song "The Other One" as the bus driver "Cowboy Neal." [1].
Cassady's autobiography The First Third was published posthumously. His complete surviving letters are published in "Grace Beats Karma: Letters from Prison" (Blast, 1993) and "Neal Cassady: Collected Letters, 1944-1967" (Penguin, 2007)
Appearances In Literature
John Clellon Holmes: Go (1952) as "Hart Kennedy" Ginsberg: Howl (1956) as "N.C." Kerouac: On the Road (1957) as "Dean Moriarty"; in the fiftieth anniversary edition of the book, he is referred to by his own name.[4] Kerouac: Visions of Cody (1960) as "Cody Pomeray" Kerouac: The Dharma Bums (1958) as "Cody Pomeray" Kerouac: The Subterraneans (1958) as "Leroy" Kerouac: Book of Dreams (1961) as "Cody Pomeray" Kerouac: Big Sur (1962) as "Cody Pomeray" Kerouac: Desolation Angels (1965) as "Cody Pomeray" Hunter S. Thompson: Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966) Tom Wolfe: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) Charles Bukowski Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969) as "Kerouac's boy Neal C." Alan Harrington: Psychopaths (1972) Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers as "Ray Hicks" (1974) Ken Kesey: Over the Border as "Houlihan" (1973) Ken Kesey: The Day After Superman Died as "Houlihan" (1979) Nick Mamatas: Move Under Ground (2004)