Midnight truck ride through Texas with gospel radio and grief over Steve Ferry’s death
The fateful decision to part ways with Geoff and Jason at the highway junction
Meeting rancher Williams who understands canyon medicine and carrying grief properly
Solo night hike into Santa Elena Canyon seeking ancient healing beyond words
The devastating discovery - Jerry Garcia’s blessed 1935 Harmony Cremona stolen
Learning that some losses cut deeper than others, some thefts can’t be recovered
Canyon walls as church older than language, indifferent to human suffering
“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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