The great Ken Kesey himself who has just written One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, is four feet away from you. He says that he and his fellow Merry Pranksters are about to go on the journey of a lifetime, a road trip across America. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is connected to One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest mainly because Kesey is a character. The book starts out with Kesey s return from jail. Then the setting turns to Kesey s log lodge in the redwood forest of La Honda.
People show up at random and get high on a wide range of drugs.
Everything from LSD to speed and weed. They come up with the idea of going to New York to visit the New York Worlds Fair. For transportation, Kesey buys an old 1939 Harvester school bus from a wealthy man in Menlo Park. The man had rigged out for his eleven kids with benches, bunks, refrigerator, sink, cabinets, shelves, and other nice features for life on the road. All your basic essentials for a long road trip, but something was still missing.