A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksterâs fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of âOne Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nest,â set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York Worldâs Fair. He was joined by âThe Merry Band of Pranksters,â a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouacâs âOn the Road,â and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.