The bus and the rusky-dusty neon dust.

Wolfe uses a kind of poetic and lyrical style to describe Kesey's idealistic home in the California woods. Kesey and his friends are enjoying Kesey's success from his book and now stage production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. They live very naturistic and romantic type lives but it's not the nature that interests them, it's how open your mind can become by using LSD. They begin experiementing and attempting to find the worlds within them as a person. While taking the drug they make art and record themselves in a very avant-garde type style. Wolfe talks about the people while their on a trip and says that while stumbling through the woods, they find old, wood carved chess pieces and begin to improve with them. They talk to them with a mixture of gibberish and confusion, all of their worlds strung together. The group dances around and beats their drums and though they're breaking ground with their experiments, they're realizing they're not equals anymore. Kesey is the head and the group isn't sure how to feel about it.
In the spring of '64 Kesey and the Pranksters get an old bus and fill it with beds and a sink. They paint the bus with vivd colours and intricate words so that they can experience the sounds inside the bus just as well as outside. They plan to take the bus and visit New York's world fair in july. While driving, stoned off their arses, they get pulled over by a patrol officer. They feel as though they're surrounded by a forest fire but they aren't sure if it's real or a hullucination. The patrol officers asks the driver, Cassidy, if they're a part of the carnival which he replies with yes as members of the bus roll around in the grass, wearing neon masks on the side of the road. The patrol officer lets the bus go with a warning which makes the passangers believe, even more, that they are in fact invincible. While the bus breaks down in San Jose, they begin to plan for their big trip East. Kesey says that on this trip 'everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be antyhing to apologize about.' They decide to document their acid trip so they take the LSD and begin the recording. They are all going crazy but raise awareness none the less. They stop at a gas station to fill up but the manager says they can't all use his restroom. One of the women jump out of the bus, completely naked, and embrases McMutry's son, thinking he is her long lost son. This is when the group realizes "She had completed her trip. She had done with the flow. She had gone stark riving mad."