Chapter XXII Diablo! Summary and Analysis

Babbs decides to take the bus to Mexico and meet up with Kesey. Mountain Girl is well along in her pregnancy and was let off lightly for her charge of marijuana possession. However, instead of doing what the court expects of her, she heads to Mexico with Babbs and the remaining Pranksters. Zonker makes arrangements to meet the bus at Mazatlan because he, Kesey and Black Maria have fled Puerto Vallarta. When the bus arrives at the rendezvous point, Mexicans gather around and exclaim, "Diablo!" Kesey and the others arrive late in an old car with no windows.

An invasion of American heads into the impoverished Mexico is taking place. Kesey has attracted many of them by making the country a kind of Mecca for the drug culture. This is the primary reason he leaves Puerto Vallarta...