Campbell's Pork and Bean soup, and the American meals it symbolizes to him. Once he arrives in new York, he travels south to collect his mother Gabrielles Ange Kerouac, stopping to reunite for two days with Joyce Johnson. He travels with his mother to California via Mexico, a journey which takes up most of the final section of the novel. Kerouac's mother packs her sewing basket, her salt and pepper shaker and a photo album for their trip. Kerouac devotes chapters 64 and 65 to literary sketches of his mother, and defends his relationship with her against "Freudian" implications (Kerouac was particularly sensitive to allegations of having an Oedipus Complex), and discusses his intense love for the woman he describes as "the most important person in this whole story, and the best." Kerouac and Gabrielles travel through Florida, Texas, Louisiana and even visit Mexico, sharing drinks and sleeping on buses. Kerouac documents her first time visiting Mexico, particularly impactfully describing how moved she was by a lone young Mexican woman dressed in black, bringing her infant child to the altar of a Catholic church. This image would stay with her for the rest of her life. After their time in Mexico, they travel through Arizona and arrive in San Francisco, California, where Gabrielles remarks that they have no plans and little money, to which Kerouac replies that rent in California can be relatively cheap. Kerouac and "Ben Fagan" (Phillip Whalen) whom Kerouac describes as "an old Grandpaw", spend time together, meeting with "Alex Fairbrother" (John Montgomery). Kerouac continues to drink, and provides "Cody Pomeray", real name Neal Cassady, with $10 for "an urgent pot connection." In meta style, Kerouac receives advance copies of his novel On the Road, giving a copy to Neal, "the hero of the poor crazy sad book." Kerouac describes Cassady's 1958 arrest for offering to share a small amount of marijuana to undercover agents, for which he served 2 years. Kerouac and Gabrielle catch a Greyhound bus back to Florida. Gabrielle stays a few blocks away from her daughter Caroline Kerouac's house in Florida. Kerouac journeys on to Mexico City again, and is upset to discover that Garver had died since he left Mexico in the beginning of Book Two, Part Two. Desolation Angels concludes with Kerouac briefly describing being back in New York at an unknown time, with Ginsberg, Orlovsky, and Corso, now that they