The pilgrimage to 1016 Lincoln Street - Grateful Dead headquarters in San Rafael
Jerry Garcia’s mystical encounter with a 1935 Harmony Cremona guitar
The moment when music becomes destiny instead of escape
Real 1973 Grateful Dead scene - behind the mythology, inside the magic
Golden Gate Park revelations and notebook confessions
Cosmic Eddie’s Uncertainty Principle - the psychedelic bus that shouldn’t exist
Highway 1 south toward Big Sur with circus performers and cosmic 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.
