Sal meets Dean and appears to just lose himself in admiration over how he is. Dean is spontaneous and doesn't seem to stress about anything. Even his wife leaving him didn't seem to get to Dean. Dean is presented as a character that takes every moment in life as a chance to do something new with himself. That's exactly what Sal wants for himself. Sal wants to leave New York and find something new for himself. He wants to get out of the habit of living how he used to and he wants to embark on a spiritual journey in which he follows Dean back to Colorado. From the minute Sal decided to follow Dean back to Colorado he was already changing himself and becoming more like Dean in a way in which he was just embracing the opportunities life was giving him and just going for it, disregarding the obvious risks of him not having much money at all or experience in hitchhiking.
This trip was, as others have mentioned, a sort of soul search for Sal. He didn't like the way his life was and he didn't like where it was headed if it stayed this way.Going through with this journey would be a way for Sal to discover new alternatives to ways of living. it would also mean a broader mind spectrum which would help him bring new life to his seemingly dead writing passion. Sal wants to rediscover himself in order to respect and admire himself and what he does the same way he does with Dean.
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