Jemma MacDonald's upcoming road trip across America: 50% Kerouac, 20% Christopher McCandless, 15% Hunter S. Thompson, 10% Joni Mitchell circa the Hejira album, 5% Thelma and Louise.

"Nights on the road were full of neon signs and round-the-clock diners and the melancholy exhiliration of being alone and rootless and going someplace, anyplace."