Five-day vision quest fast in Santa Elena Canyon’s limestone cathedral
F-4 Phantom military jet desecrating sacred space during low-level training
Rage transforming stones into doves into prayers into nothing
“Wooden Ships” soundtrack to mystical experience and ghostly conversations
Steve Ferry’s spirit explaining his paranoid self-destruction
Prophetic vision of future sailing life and the woman who “moves like water”
The final transformation from roads to water, linear to circular, war to peace
“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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