Andre’s escape from paranoid friend Steve to the ancient redwood forests
Three days of profound solitude among two-thousand-year-old giants
Meeting Sasha, a mystical woman who talks to trees at a commune
A transformative peyote experience revealing the consciousness of forests
Visions of home, belonging, and humanity’s connection to nature
The realization that some people are meant to be witnessed, not possessed
Why the redwoods became Andre’s cathedral and teacher
“Surfing The Interstates”—the first book of a memoir trilogy—chronicles a transformative 4,000-mile hitchhiking journey across America in 1973. This coming-of-age memoir follows a 21-year-old’s two-month odyssey from East Coast privilege to West Coast revelation, capturing the last summer when you could truly vanish in America.
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