A Gypsy Among Gypsies

This is a love quest 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, Gyspy was running for his life, hoping to outdistance his murky past and vanquish the demons in my head. He knew his troubled past was dark, but he didn't 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 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 "This memoir begins with a s..."
• Chapter 2 - The Gypsy Queen "I get to know the woman of ..."
• Chapter 3 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (revised 1-2010)"The Gypsy sails to Marathon..."
• Chapter 4 - The Voyage of the Gypsy (revised 1/2010)"Returning home after a six-..."
• Chapter 5 - Road trip to Montreal (revised (1-10)"I drive a snowbird's car to..."
• Chapter 6 - Finding My Way "At a freeway rest stop in S..."
• Chapter 7 - We Dream the Impossible (revised Feb. 2010)"This chapter concludes my f..."
• Chapter 8 - Cross-country road trip (revised and reposted)"My cross-country trip takes..."
• Chapter 9 - The Alpine Experience (revised 9/08)"My adventure takes me to Se..."
• Chapter 10 - San Francisco "After returning the Cadilla..."
• Chapter 11 - On top of Mt. Baldy"After being hired to work a..."
• Chapter 12 - Hilda, Get Your Gun! (revised 10/08)"Grandma Hilda and Glenn pay..."
• Chapter 13 - The Pacific Flyway (revised and reposted)"For the next four months, I..."
• Chapter 14 - A Separate Reality (reivised and reposted)"When the hunting season end..."
• Chapter 15 - Eureka! I have lost it! (revised and reposted)"My friends and I had been c..."
• Chapter 16 - Rescue Me! (revised and reposted)"I get out jail and move int..."
• Chapter 17 - Brookings to New Orleans "On my fourth day out of jai..."
• Chapter 18 - Psychedelia and White Water "This chapter opens with a c..."
• Chapter 19 - Unalaska, Alaska (revised 9/08)"My three-year-old quest is ..."
• Chapter 20 - Goodbye Alaska (revised and reposted 9/08)"We are all shaped by our li..."
• Chapter 21 - Homeward Bound (revised 9/08)"I flew home to Florida with..."
• Chapter 22 - The Last Leg to Dutch (revised 9/08)"After catching a ride to Se..."
• Chapter 23 - Dutch Harbor Again (revised 9/08)"I return to Dutch Harbor."
• Chapter 24 - Hawaii (revised 9/08)"Jeannie and I fly to Hawaii..."
• Chapter 25 - Trouble in Paradise (revised 9/08)"At the end of our two-year ..."
• Chapter 26 - Washington (revised 9/08)"Jeannie and I leave Hawaii ..."
• Chapter 27 - Home Again (revised 9/08)"After a child-custody fight..."
• Chapter 28 - There's No Place Like Home (revised 9/08)"Thinking I could return hom..."
• Chapter 29 - The Emergency Room (revised 10/08)"Following a medical emergen..."
• Chapter 30 - Hitting the Wall "This was the hardest chapte..."
• Chapter 31 - The Answers are Within (reposted 10-08)"I look in the past for the ..."
• Chapter 32 - First Love"After sending my son to liv..."
• Chapter 33 - The End is a Beginning"Gypsy has been a group effo..."