From Hitchhiking overview, Addendum – 31 Trips, and Medway Forest
Trip #13. Hitchhiking: Palo Alto to Santa Cruz (1966)
P/R: I was still wanting to do something creative with all this energy and hitchhiked down to Santa Cruz to see some friends who had a blues band and were looking for a drummer. The experience of being on the road alone was pretty scary. I was lucky that the officer who stopped me at the off-ramp in Santa Cruz didn’t hassle me any more about the blue work shirt I was wearing and which make him think I had escaped from an honor farm or something. I remember walking down the road writing angry comments about the people who wouldn’t give me a ride on the back page of my copy of Perls’s “Ego, Hunger, and Aggression.”
S/K: I learned that a lot of the credit for navigating while stoned went to my partners and it was very difficult for me to do it alone.
From Addendum – 31 Trips. Trip #13