An LSD Journey in the 1969 California Underground
The star of our story is Tom Calder, who is trained as a concert lightman
and in a Libyan guerilla warfare school.
See where The Coyote leads us as he bends reality into this wild adventurous novel that starts in 1969 during a drug deal that goes very wrong.
Experience what life was really like before the Hippies were herded by Governor Reagan into camouflage targets for the Viet Cong.
Live in a terrorist safehouse in San Francisco based upon similar hostels and underground railroads Coyote travelled through during his years of hitchhiking across America and Canada in the sixties and early seventies.
This is the book that received compliments from publishers who said
they were, "afraid to publish this book..."
due to pressures from the Reagan Administration: not
to glorify drug usage.
Warning:
violence, graphic sex,
and drug usage
make this book inappropriate for persons under 16 years of age.
I wrote this Sid’s Place book a long time ago. One of my motives for writing this book was to explore how things might have gone for me under different circumstances. Like Tom, I got busted in my van, but I hung around and got a lucky break when my Uncle offered to take me in, in St. John's, Newfoundland. My friend went to jail, I was exiled to Newfoundland. (That was 1970. I spent two years hitchhiking from the Canadian Pacific to Atlantic Oceans.)
Another motive for writing this book was to explore the possible error of my passivity. Somehow, I take a quiet pride in the fact I have not killed anyone, and despite opportunities and good reasons, still decided not to. In this story I pushed myself to the limit where I would take a life, purposefully. Better my imagination than reality.
As for the drug tripping, I explored that plenty in reality, or different realities. I’ve got a lot more of those stories to tell.
So enjoy a glimpse of my teenage world. Sadly, as civilization seems to be heading toward less love and more war, you can see a generation that fought this trend of violence.
Love,
Coyote
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