Andre’s dramatic escape from his family’s Westchester estate with just $80 to his name
The traumatic moment that triggers his departure - witnessing domestic violence
First encounters with 1970s hitchhiking culture and the kindness of strangers
A Vietnam veteran’s perspective on draft resistance and the war’s aftermath
Meeting Rainbow and Derek - cosmic hippie lovers heading to get a motorcycle
The beginning of a 4,000-mile journey that will transform a sheltered young man
Why 1973 was the perfect year for disappearing into America’s counterculture underground
“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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