A flute player who steers his VW with his knees while performing
A Vietnam veteran’s perspective on draft resistance and road love
Impromptu music sessions with international travelers
The culture clash between road wanderers and college students
Why the “kindness of strangers” was real in 1970s America
“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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