Andre J de Saint Phalle
The Spaces Between - A Memoir Trilogy
Chapter Five: The Frequency Of Freedom - “Surfing The Interstates”
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Chapter Five: The Frequency Of Freedom - “Surfing The Interstates”

The Frequency Of Freedom
  • 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.

Click here for table of contents with links to all 16 chapters.

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