Andre’s dangerous solo journey through hostile Wyoming with police harassment
Haunting memories of college friend Steve Ferry’s transformation from brilliant student to paranoid recluse
The reality of draft resistance and psychological deferments during Vietnam
How fear and isolation corrupted the counterculture dream
Cross-country truckers, speed freaks, and the loneliness of long-distance hitchhiking
The ominous approach to California and a reunion that will change everything
Why some people couldn’t handle the freedom they fought for
“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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