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Sal is a young writer in New York
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Dean and his wife come to New York for the first time from Denver
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Dean and Sal meet for the frist time in New York. Sal's first impression is that he is like a young Gene Autry
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Dean goes to live in Paterson, New Jersey with his aunt.
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Dean heads west
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Sal has written half of a novel and heads west
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Sal stops in Chicago and makes his way to Iowa where he sees the Mississippi river for the first time.
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Sal gets the greatest ride of his life on a flat bed truck with several other hitchhikers
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Sal arrives in Denver atlast
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Sal finds out Dean has a new girlfriend and is going back and forth between Camille and Marylou, his ex wife.
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Sal decides to go to San Fransisco whre he meets Remi and Lee Anne here. First he gtries to write a play for Hollywood but it didn't work so he got a job being a night gaurd with Remi.
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Sal then goes to LA where he meets Terry and is unable to make a living.
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Sal heads back home and finds out Dean is not there anymore but he was looking for her.
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Sal and Dean make several trips back and forth between Virginia and New Jersey with furniture for Sal's aunt
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The group starts taveling across the country and picks up hitchhikers along the way to get gas money but several of them lie about having money.
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They arrive in Louisiana and meet up with Bull and JAne where Bull gives them drugs.
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Dean, Sal, and Marylou go to California
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Once they all arrive to California, Dean leaves Sal and Marylou for Camllle
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Sal is sick of Dean going back and forth between Camille and Marylou so Sal heads back to Denver.
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Sal gets money from this rich woman and uses the money to go back to San Fransisco again to be with Dean.
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Once Sal and Dean are together again they both decide to head back to Denver once again.
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While Dean and Sal are in Denver, Dean stole cars and so they have to leave immedietly. They got the oppurtunity to drive this mans Cadillac to Chicago.
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After they get in several accidents they leave the damaged car in Chicago and take a bus to Detroit and from there they head back to New York.
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Sal earns enough money at this point to leave Dean and New York to go to Mexico
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Dean finds out that Sal has left to Mexico and so he also leaves to Mexico saying that he is going there to get his divorce final since it goes quicker there.
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Dean then heads back to the states and goes to San Fransicio yet again for Camille, now that the divorce with Marylou is final.
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Sal is back in New York now and has met Laura who is his "perfect girl" Dean and Sal have now gone their seperate ways in California and New York with their significant others.