From The Road: Ohio

Jack Kerouac

Heather and I spent last night in Cleveland, where I composed this post. I'm a day behind, what with the move and all.

The trip across the west of the east was uneventful, except for some town names we saw in Ohio: Ravenna and Ashtabula.

Yes, Ashtabula gets a mention in Jack Kerouac's poem "Home I'll Never Be," transformed into a song by both Tom Waits and the Low Anthem (Wait's version replaces Ashtabula with Opelousas). 

Ravenna, though a city and province in Italy, is also a town in Ohio, and I believe it is the one mentioned in the Dinner Belles' "Runnin' to Ravenna." 

These tunes ran through my head as we drove. They did not run through the truck's speaker system, since the truck did not have an audio jack.