Where have all the hippies gone?

I find a lot of hippies in the cruising sailors' world. People who try to avoid society's restrictions and live their lives in harmony with nature and as citizens of the world.

Go to any cruising port in the world and you'll find people of all nations who will be happy to be in friendship with you.

 

To be clear, are you talking about people going on cruises or people who live in ports where cruise ships dock?

 

Noooooo cruises on cruise ships!

I'm referring to people who live aboard their own sailboats and travel about the world via the sea, and the ports that cater to them.

 

Spinsheet has a pretty good definition of what constitutes cruising:

The Cruising Life

 

I'd be remiss to not mention Hawaii, especially in certain districts on Maui or da Big Island.

Take the Puna District on da Big Island. It's on the windward side so it has lush vegetation (although more and more of that is becoming fucking invasive species) and boucoup hippies. And plots of land growing awesome weed. And sustainable communes. I loved the wee village of Pahoa, with all its organic bakeries and restaurants and grocers, and shops selling books that appeal to all a hippie's tastes, plus crystals and handcrafts and really cool straw hats.

I really hope Pahoa still exists after Madam Pele decided to switch things up and run, like, a zillion cubic yards of magma from the east rift zone.

Anyway, there are hippie enclaves in Hawaii.

 

Did we actually define what a hippie is? I think we have some idea of what they were and stood for in the 60s/70s. A lot of those hippies are no longer with us, and many others have become a bit more conservative in their advanced age. Is calling yourself a hippie in 2024 different? Pot is legal. There is no draft. What exactly are we fighting for?

 

Don't ask me I don't give a damn
Next stop is Disneyland!

Seriously, at the moment we're fighting for an end to the wars in Ukraine and Israel, as well as fighting for Kamala Harris whether you have confidence in her or not, because a 2nd Trump term would be a catastrophe!

 

Cruise ship???? LMAO!!!

I had a 26' sailboat. Never did get it into the ocean----sailed a lot of mountain lakes. But I did have a subscription to Cruising World, and envied everyone that were in it!

I'm still here. Granted, I never fully dropped out, and took Jerry Rubin's advice in the late 70's that true freedom requires economic freedom, but at the same time I never sold my soul. I made wealth on my own terms.

If you go into the mountains of South Central Colorado----where there is an ancient rift valley, and a lot of energy in the land, you will find a lot of the old hippies. They are off grid and nestled in the mountains. There are a lot of hot springs in that area, and they will come out to soak. Especially the smaller hot springs is a great place to meet them.

 

Palestine*

 

When I'm right I'm right!

 

So around the towns of Trinidad and San Luis?

 

The Santa Cruz mountains in California was a hippie haven for a long time, maybe still is. Also in Woodside, south of San Francisco. I once got cast off a jury because I lived in an "alternative lifestyle neighborhood" in Boulder Creek. The neighborhood I lived in was absolutely not that. I also wanted to 'hang' the
defendant.

 

I lived up country Maui, below Captain Cook-Big island, some on Kauai. It was easy to hippie around in Hawaii back in the 60s--70s. Wonder if many are still there?