A ride with wealthy women playing at counterculture in a pristine VW Westfalia
Class tensions between trust fund hippies and authentic road culture
Nederland, Colorado mountain community and its contradictions
How prep school background creates both privilege and alienation
The uncomfortable truth about who could afford to “drop out” in 1973
Why some paradise always comes with a price tag
“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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