“A guy finally picked us up in a van and said, ‘You’re stupid. As they tried to hitchhike, cars kept whizzing past. And for Davis, not quite 20 at the time, it planted the seed for a tale that would take him 50 years to write and publish.Įven back in the more casual ’70s, people were wary of picking up strapping, bushy-haired young men. Their plan: catch a cheap flight in New York to London and then make their way to a remote Scottish island where Morrison hoped to reconnect with the father he never knew.īut a fellow traveler gave them some advice that would radically change their mode of transport. Back in the early 1970s, Ed Davis and pal Paul Morrison set out from Sebastopol to hitchhike across the U.S., a road trip that was almost a rite of passage for baby boomers coming of age at the time.
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