In this chronicle about life on the hippie trail, W.
Raebeck provides a funky flashback to what now seems an easier era.
Through her marginal feats and misadventures, you'll always be siding with the bad guy.
Questionable conduct here takes a back seat to innocence, naivete, rites of passage, and even desperation.
The author's exploits reveal, too, that perennial determination of the young--every generation's instinct to define itself and its time.
In a kaleidoscope of back roads.