Taking shelter with fellow musicians in a Colorado mountain town
Glen Haven General Store as refuge for traveling troubadours
How canyon acoustics create natural amplification for guitar music
The intersection of hippie travelers and rural Colorado culture
Why some places become magnets for musical wanderers
“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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