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The Second Trip to Raton Canyon Dulouz is much happier with a crowd of friends sharing the cabin with him. McLear reads some poetry, they all clown around and drink and eat, and they visit the hot tubs (where Dulouz and Pomeray, the two old-time Catholics, cannot feel comfortable removing their clothes). Dulouz and Ma stay up into the late hours of the night creating spontaneous Zen poems. Everybody has to go back to San Francisco, but Dulouz stays behind, apparently hoping to finally capture the fragile peace he'd sought in his previous three weeks there. The wannabeat Ron Blake stays too, annoying Dulouz . McLear comes back with his wife and daughter, and then Cody Pomeray bursts in with his wife and children. Pomeray wants to take Dulouz back to the city; first they have to all go to a 'hiss-the-villian play', an embarassingly suburban kid's theatre production that Pomeray's wife has been involved with. The scene at the play is sad; the kids hiss the villian, Pomeray endures it all patiently, and Dulouz is barely able to endure the poignant mess. (The emphasis on children and parenthood is there to forebode the next event in the book; contrary to what many believe, Kerouac's books did have structure).
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