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Plush Kokopelli Plans a Trip
Late Author Jack Kerouac's 1937 Ford Sedan Identified in Holbrook, Arizona
Holbrook, AZ, June 1, 2013 Author: Jim McGillisIn Wigwam #7 of the
Cozy Cone Motel,
Moabbey the Coyote sat hunched over his
Apple Power Mac G4 Cube. Using his mind to tune the 4-D
chromatic-hypersphere
display was not easy. When his eyes began to cross, he had to turn away.
"Have you seen Plush Kokopelli lately?" he asked. Almost at
once, both Silver Girl and
Coney the Traffic Cone answered, "He is out back
testing Jack Kerouac's 1937 Ford Sedan for a trip to
Wigwam Village #2 in
Cave
City, Kentucky".
Ignoring the comment about his literary hero, Jack Kerouac, Moabbey mused, "Well
that explains why Plush Kokopelli is appearing again in several places at once.
Part of my computer display shows him outside
here in Holbrook, Arizona. Part of
him appears at
Mammoth Mountain, California, giving a live snow report and just
a bit of him is at Wigwam Village #2 near
Mammoth Cave
National Park, Kentucky".
At that, Silver Girl snickered. "Moabbey, if you would look up from that display
occasionally, you would know that
Plush Kokopelli is out back, here at Wigwam
Village in Holbrook. He is visualizing a road trip to Kentucky".
"Kentucky? Why would Kokopelli, the Ancient Spirit of Arizona drive an old Ford
jalopy from one end of Old-66 to the other?" Moabbey asked.
Then, Coney the Traffic Cone chimed in. "Don't you know? When Plush Kokopelli
returned to Arizona, he identified that derelict 1937 Ford sedan out back.
Through five-dimensional analysis, Plush Kokopelli determined that it is the
actual car mentioned in Jack Kerouac's novel, 'On the Road'. In the book, Sal
Paradise and Dean Moriarty drive that Ford all the way to Mexico City. When Sal
falls ill in Mexico City, Dean abandons him and drives the old Ford back here.
When the engine seized, he abandoned it. Since then, the car has been
rusting away out back of the Wigwam Motel, right here in Holbrook, Arizona".
"That's crazy", said Moabbey. "How could it be the same car as in the novel?"
Plush Kokopelli planning his
trip to Cave City, Kentucky.
Looking at Moabbey as if he were a child, and with a touch of condescension in his voice, the orange traffic cone answered, "Moabbey, please recall that Sal Paradise refused to sleep in the car or on the ground. Between insects, unexpected traffic and oppressive ground heat, he chose to sleep atop the Ford. With the ovoid bulge of the sedan's roof, that would be impossible. What Kerouac did not mention in his book was the steel roof-rack added prior to their trip. With that rack, Kerouac could put a bedroll on top and sleep off the ground. His weight squashed the steel top, but that is further evidence of authenticity".
"Hey, you might have something there," exclaimed Moabbey.
"Let's get practical," said Silver Girl. "If Plush Kokopelli is going to take a road trip to Wigwam Village #2 in Cave City, Kentucky, it is not going to be in that old Ford jalopy. If we pack him in a cardboard box and send him UPS, he can be there in time for the Grand Reopening of the Cozy Cone Motel #2".
"Well, I'm going too," said Coney emphatically.
"We have only enough funds to send Plush Kokopelli. Besides, you are too odd shaped for UPS," said Moabbey. "If you plan to attend, you may have to hitchhike".
At that, Coney started singing the lyrics to an old song. "Well, I might take plane / I might take a train / but if I have to walk, you know, / I'm goin' just the same. / I'm goin' to Cave City / Cave City here I come".
To be continued...
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