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It was a new age, one called the Age of Aquarius, with a restless, ideological generation full of a reverence for new worlds opening up to new ideas. When the Beatles introduced the mystique of India to pop culture, the Hippie Trail was established as hip adventurers traveled overland from Europe to Kathmandu and India. Hunter was not among these hipsters. Still bitter over the way he was treated as a Marine combat veteran home from the Vietnam War,...
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The owner and three passengers of The Volkswagen Van first meet in Amsterdam in front of the American Express office in the summer of 1972. They share an unquenchable thirst for adventure and on a whim, agree to travel fourteen thousand miles going overland on the hippie trail to India. Tony Toscano, a sociopath and owner of the van, is determined at all costs to smuggle drugs from Afghanistan and never tells the other riders of his intentions. Like...
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They were sometimes called Intrepids who abandoned convention to seek out the Hippie Trail of the '60's and '70's across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia in search of meaning and purpose. The places were iconic, each traveler's path was unique. Tijuana Jail to Mt. Everest. Rain Forest commune to the aftermath of Darwin's Cyclone Tracy. Hollows of Appalachia to Ghats on the Ganges. The collegiate gridiron of California to the rugby grounds...
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This memoir recounts a journey undertaken during an era marked by innocence and naivety, yet brimming with excitement. It was a time when one could traverse from Europe to Asia entirely by land, savouring the gradual shift in cultures and landscapes, a feat that has become increasingly challenging in today's world. This travelogue reflects on a privileged experience, one for which the author remains deeply grateful, having witnessed these diverse...
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As they drove through the hot flat Iraqi desert, Patricia looked over at her husband. He was guzzling water, sweat was running down his neck, the outside temperature was way over 100, and their 1963 VW camper van had no air conditioning. "Yikes," she thought. "This is not how I pictured our honeymoon." It was August of 1966. They had gone to Europe the previous summer after their wedding, and that trip had stretched into a two-year adventure that...
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It is 1965 in this memoir when Patricia and her new husband set off on to Europe on their honeymoon. Little did she know that this trip would stretch into a two-year journey that would take them around the world on a bare-bones budget. While living rarely more than an arm's distance apart in their VW van, they make their way from Europe and West Asia to South Asia, then continue across East Asia by train, bus, and hitchhiking. In those days with no...
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