Wanna Smoke?: "The Adventures of a Storyteller"

My story starts during the Summer of Love August 1967.

Fired from my corporate job on the Friday my summer vacation was to start, I decided to go to Haight/Ashbury and check it out.

The six days I spent there aroused the hidden desire to do something Id always wanted to do-work my way around the world.With Merchant Seaman papers, a passport, a duffel bag full of clothes and $125, I set sail from San Pedro, California, at the age of 26.

My voyage ended three years later in Tucson, Arizona, $10 in my pocket, a backpack full of clothes, and 2000 miles short of circumnavigating the world