A Gypsy Among Gypsies

This is a completed story. A Gypsy Among Gypsies is the story of my nomadic adolescence, living by my wits in the age of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. While American youth were growing their hair, experimenting with psychotropic drugs and protesting the Vietnam War, I was running for my life to Alaska, hoping to outdistance my troubled past and vanquish the demons in my head. I knew my past was dark, but I did not know it all. The storyline is a progressive quest for adventure, self-discovery, and enlightenment with more twists and turns than a Texas sidewinder: from a six-month cruise in the Caribbean to a county jail in California; from a cabin in the Sierra Nevada to a remote river camp in the Trinity Mountains; from the Aleutian Islands to Hawaii. Wrapped in a riddle with psychological and paranormal overtones, the story embodies the adolescent spirit of romance, rebellion and idealism, and celebrates the contention that given even less than half a chance, life not only endures...it prevails.

• Chapter 1 - A Gypsy Among Gypsies (revised)"After becoming disillusione..."
• Chapter 2 - The Gypsy Queen (revised)"I was living aboard the Gyp..."
• Chapter 3 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"The Gypsy sails to Marathon..."
• Chapter 4 - The Voyage of the Gypsy"Returning home after a six-..."
• Chapter 5 - Road trip to Montreal"I drive a snowbird's car to..."
• Chapter 6 - Go West Young Man"On on a freeway entrance ra..."
• Chapter 7 - Cross-country 101"After dropping out of colle..."
• Chapter 8 - The Alpine Experience"My cross-country trip takes..."
• Chapter 9 - San Francisco"After returning the Cadilla..."
• Chapter 10 - On top of Mt. Baldy"After being hired to work a..."
• Chapter 11 - Hilda, Get Your Gun!"Grandma Hilda and Glenn arr..."
• Chapter 12 - The Pacific Flyway"For the next four months, I..."
• Chapter 13 - A Separate Reality"When the hunting season end..."
• Chapter 14 - Eureka! I have lost it!"My friends and I had been c..."
• Chapter 15 - Rescue Me!"I get out jail and move int..."
• Chapter 16 - Brookings to New Orleans"On my fourth day out of jai..."
• Chapter 17 - Psychedelia and White Water"After the flashback to the ..."
• Chapter 18 - Unalaska, Alaska"My three-year-old quest is ..."
• Chapter 19 - Goodbye Alaska"We are all shaped by our li..."
• Chapter 20 - Homeward Bound"I flew home to Florida with..."
• Chapter 21 - The Last Leg to Dutch"After catching a ride to Se..."
• Chapter 22 - Dutch Harbor Again"I return to Dutch Harbor."
• Chapter 23 - Hawaii"Jeannie and I fly to Hawaii..."
• Chapter 24 - Trouble in Paradise"At the end of our two-year ..."
• Chapter 25 - Washington"Jeannie and I leave Hawaii ..."
• Chapter 26 - Home Again"After a child-custody fight..."
• Chapter 27 - There's No Place Like Home"Thinking I could return hom..."
• Chapter 28 - The Emergency Room"Following a medical emergen..."
• Chapter 29 - Hitting the Wall"This was the hardest chapte..."
• Chapter 30 - The Answers are Within"I look in the past for the ..."
• Chapter 31 - First Love"I hit rock bottom when I se..."
• Chapter 32 - The End is a Beginning"This is the end of my story..."