I got to see the bus last year as I was returning to North Idaho from Strawberry Music Festival.I was northbound on I-5 just above Sacramento, when I saw a psychedelic bus headed south. As I got closer, I saw the logo Further, and as it passed me there was a skeleton in a sombrero playing a guitar on the back porch of the bus.Sure looked like Kesey driving.

Cuckoo's Nest was one of the best books I have ever read. Particularly since I started working at Patton State Hospital in 1963. I really could relate to every thing in the book.

The article on Kesey's passsing surprised me with comment about the Veteran's Hospital.I had always understood that Cuckoo's Nest was written about Eastern State Hospital in Oregon.Supposedly several people lost their jobs after the publication of the book.

Probably another of those myths that get passed on by people like me.

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