Navnet på min blog har jeg lånt fra titlen på Jack Kerouacs bog the Dharma Bums (1958) der bl.a. skildrer den unge Kerouacs begyndende fascination og flirt med buddhismen i sen 50érnes USA. Kerouac er af mange blevet kaldt beatgenerationens konge og hippiernes fader og følgende uddrag fra bogen kan stå som de kommende generationers af rygsæksrejsendes og andre søgendes programskrift: "See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to p...