Leaving New York
Sal bankrolls this last trip west by finally selling this to a publisher.
What is his book?
Sal spends a calm, happy week in the backyard of Tim Gray and this woman, headquarters of the old Denver gang.
Who is Babe Rawlins?
Only a few miles out of Denver, Stan's arm swells up horribly after one of these gets him; an omen, Sal thinks.
What is a bug?
In Gregoria this roadside seller of windshield screens becomes their guide — to marijuana, to his family, and to the dance hall.
Who is Victor?
Their “holy walk” through Mexico City ends when Sal is flattened by this illness, delirious and unconscious for days.
What is dysentery?
Dean stays behind in New York with Inez, working long days at one of these to cover his child support.
What is a parking lot?
Denver Doll telephones with the news that Dean has bought one of these and is barreling west; proof to Sal that Dean has gone mad again.
What is a car?
They stop at a clinic in this Texas city, where Stan takes a shot of penicillin before the three go shoot pool.
What is San Antonio?
Victor's mother picks the crop straight from the garden, and he rolls it into a joint the size of one of these.
What is a cigar?
Back in New York that fall, Sal meets this woman; the girl he had been looking for the whole time.
Who is Laura?
Over dinner Dean startles Sal's aunt by handing back this sum, which she had paid for his speeding ticket.
What is fifteen dollars?
Warned that Dean is coming, Sal pictures him as this figure from an old dream: a “burning shuddering frightful Angel.”
What is the Shrouded Traveler?
Watching Denver sink behind him like Atlantis, Sal likens his backward glance to this biblical woman's.
Who is Lot's wife?
The whorehouse blares Pérez Prado records of this Cuban dance music, louder than anything the three have ever heard.
What is the mambo?
High on a Sierra Madre pass, Dean hands one of these over to an Indian girl in exchange for a small rock crystal.
What is his watch?
Sal plays father figure on the bus to this twenty-year-old fresh out of a federal pen, delivering him to his brother in Denver.
Who is Henry Glass?
Stan Shephard's tearful exit from Denver is really an escape from this relative, who begs him on the sidewalk not to go.
Who is his grandfather?
Sal calls this Texas border town the dregs of America before they cross the bridge over the Rio Grande.
What is Laredo?
So high he can hardly talk, Sal watches Dean's face turn into this president's, and then into God's.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR))?
Sal's last sight of Dean is out the back window of this car, which Remi Boncoeur refuses to let Dean ride in.
What is a Cadillac?
Wandering the South before he turns west, Sal detours to the grave of this Confederate general.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
Sal breaks a finger punching a door during a roaring drunken night at the bar of this Denver hotel.
What is the Windsor?
They roll into Mexico at this hour of the morning, met by border officials who are grinning, relaxed and careless.
What is three o'clock?
Asleep in the jungle town of Limón, Sal watches this animal come galloping out of the dark straight at Dean.
What is a white horse?
Dean's car finally falls apart in this Louisiana town, and he wires Inez for money to finish the trip home.
What is Lake Charles?