Stories of the Street

Being the memoirs of Brian Crawford during the hippie years.

Peyote

December 1967 - February 1968 - A cross-country trip in an ambulance in search of the fabled psychedelic cactus.

Fort Worth

February 1968 to April 1968 - An early hippie commune in suburban Fort Worth, busted on my 21st birthday.

Eight East

July 1968 - Five days in a mental hospital, thanks to a drug bust.

Pirates

January 1971 to August 1972 - Twenty months in a tramp freighter in a "para-naval" adventure group.

Warana

July 1973 to January 1974 - A voyage as navigator of the yacht Warana from Tonga to Australia and the running of the Sydney-Hobart yacht race.


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