I read Kerouac, watched Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy, I am an activist and feel like I want to travel over the summer. I am a typical hippie. I identify with what i have read about the mindset of college student in the 60'swho felt that society was a ruse and that something other than money and jobs existed. I identify with the feelings of Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, minus the love of an older woman, I feel pressures of conforming to society and getting a job, "plastics". I feel like I know what Kerouac meant when he talked about "rucksack" people who leave society and live in the mountains. I need to travel and wonder how "hippie" like other places are. Anyone know anything about Mendocino, Humboldt, Laurel canyon and Topanga, all in California? I have read about the Haight in the 60's, with thousands of kids in the park in sleeping bags, and protests and stuff. Is their any places that is like that now? Are their any true hippie havens that rival how it was in the 60's? I need to get out their and experience the u.s. like kerouac did and the characters in easy rider, but I want the places I visit to be hippie places thanks
you CAN spell, Only One. I now have expectations. MalcomX88 (might want to change that sig: I 'm betting 88 was your birth year, but it is also white supremecist shorthand for heil hitler as H is the 8th letter of the English alphabet), there are no complete overrun hippie places & Kerouac didn't seek out only Beats, but who and what made up the Other America. Go to Denver's five points today, and it is a mix of Crips, locals trying to hang on and invading Yuppies pushing out the few artists who moved in (first sign of gentrification: artists in a depressed neighborhood. they make it the cool place to be...when all we were looking for was cheap rent..sorry Deep Ellum) Maybe get some concepts from real, living people before you light out. Travel is good, but a closed mind set, even if you have "an open mind" will keep you from learning many lessons. If you are an activist, you should be involved with a progressive community. What is your activism, may I ask? but your direct question was about Mendocino Humboldt Laurel canyon and Topanga I can tell you the canyons are white yuppie chowderhead enclaves where Mexicans build the very walls meant to keep them out. It's sprawl and its ugly. The people THINK they are not racist, but threaten their property values and they'll have their thug force get rid of you. Humboldt is a college community rife with eco activists. don't know much about Medecino. Find the pockets. check out the Rinbow and travel forums.
Hey!!! WE should schedual our own protest in washington or something, i mean am i the only one agienst being over in iraque? ( or however u spell it)
hi don't know for sure if i posted it right here:& but does anyone know hippy hangouts in the Netherlands? I know Amsterdam...but are there more spots? peace and love....sunflower76
Liedzer Plain wus alwayz good, the chess playerz and acid an all cool people, friendly, apsolutly no pigz anywhere.
The Haight in San Francisco still has lots of hippies hanging out, in the Panhandle and nearby Golden Gate Park and on Hippie Hill. Cool place, I'm there all the time. And the clock on the corner of Haight & Ashbury reads 4:20 at every time of day. Toke on.
Kootenays, BC smokin mountainous area, voted safest place to hitchike... founded by draft dodgers, sweet srtist community. Sunshine Coast, BC. Festivals in Summer
dear malcolmx88..the sixties are over.. you can't reckon to go on the those spots and automatically ge back in history..I mean, of course the sixties, the countetculture, the protest against the war in vietnam, the drugs' "enlightment", peace and love.. everything which involves your mind with 60's themes, forms part of our cultural heritage, but what you'd do in that way(visiting hippy-glamour spots) is just a kind of pilgrimage..I mean that's ok, nothing's wrong at all..I just believe we should discover and influence the society we live in, and no wondering of living during the '60s;dont'worry, we're keeping the 60's culture anyway..
I forgot to say: I agree with your "dustin hoffmann's feeling"; this morning I opened the job page on an italian news site and the main title on the job scetion was: "Dreaming a bank empoyment" along with a picture of a man in tie...how can be that your dream...
Try the Gatherin near Ocala Fl., then see me on Cristmass Tree tannin on duh beach there next 2 my sailboatz.
