It’s the summer of 1971. The Vietnam War rages on. Nixon declares the War on Drugs. Jim Morrison dies in a bathtub. And all a nice Jewish boy from Miami wants is escape Paradise so he can find Utopia. Doug is a 17-year old hippie-wannabe who has all the answers. It’s just the questions that elude him. So he sets off on a psychedelic journey across America in his steel-toed boots. It’s a drug-hazed time of shag carpets and free love while trying to steer clear of farm-bred mosquitoes, a chainsaw attack, escaped convicts, angry villagers, a satanic cult and a pack of wild dogs. Doug’s journey becomes a wild ride with a merry band of folks looking for their piece of the American Dream. Instead he stumbles into the most notorious get-rich-quick scheme of the twentieth century, and learns the true meaning of American Karma.

2. It’s the
summer
of 1971.

3. The
Vietnam
War rages
on.

4. Nixon
declares
the War
on Drugs.

5. Jim
Morrison
dies in a
bathtub.

6. And all a nice
Jewish boy
from Miami
wants…

7. …is to find...

9. In a time of drug haze
and rebellion…

10. …A 17-year old
anti-materialistic
hippie, chronicles his
cross-country, pitfall-
laden trek – including
the most notorious get-
rich- quick scheme of
the 20th century!

12. Available
now in
paperback
and on

13. Contact:
dougshear@
aol.com

14. ~Memories~

15. Koscot
Interplanetary, Inc.

16. Riley County Prison