On the Road Again
Thus, the plot pretext invokes more of a quest for spiritual and cultural identity...Easy Rider constitutes a certain On the Road, an explicit attempt to rediscover America.(Laderman 46,47).
In the most simplistic terms I think Wyatt and Billy turned to the road in search for the America that first began and is founded on exploration, escape, and discovering a place where one has freedom. I think they specifically take to the road to find what they are looking for because they feel the most comfortable in the transition from one place to the other. The long sequences of landscape shots accompanied by music demonstrates how the road and nature does not judge them or discriminate, it is tolerant and treats everyone they same.
Unfortunately not all the people that Wyatt and Billy encounter on their trip are like the road. Instead of finding an America that is excepting of who they are and embraces individual differences they find and America that won't let them sleep in hotels, eat in restaurants, or even ride their motorcycles down their inhabited streets.