Andre J de Saint Phalle
The Spaces Between - A Memoir Trilogy
Chapter Two: Turn On Your Lovelight - “Surfing The Interstates”
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Chapter Two: Turn On Your Lovelight - “Surfing The Interstates”

Turn On Your Lovelight
  • A transformative 1970 Grateful Dead concert at Penn that defined a generation

  • Pigpen’s final performances and Andre’s mystical connection through a tambourine

  • A psychedelic encounter with Sara that becomes spiritual and sexual awakening

  • Gothic cathedral acoustics meeting counterculture communion

  • How one night of music and acid shaped a young man’s search for transcendence

“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.

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