Hippies in the 1960’s

Hippies travelled a lot and they learned to travel light, living out of a small bag with only a couple changes of clothes (if that). They didn’t care how they got from destination to destination and other Hippy homes where open to them staying the night. People in that decade were more cooperative in helping you get what you wanted or where you wanted. In 1963 Phyllis and Ron Patterson got the idea of going to Southern and Northern California during the summer and the fall, to a renaissance faire to sell home made goods. So in the fall and summer months families would truck or bus to renaissance fairs in their home crafted buses. One of the most famous Hippy buses was made by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, it was an old 1939 International Harvester school bus and they made it for a journey across America from La Honda to New York, for the release of Ken Kesey’s second book Sometimes a Great Notion. The Merry Pranksters and Kesey fitted the bus out for sleeping and eating, they even turned the roof into a stage and played music as they drove through towns. Then they painted some wild psychedelic art on it and named it “further” 2

The Hippy movement was great during the 1960’s because it showed people that change was good and the Hippy movement also helped other movements in protests and the like. The Hippy movement seems to have disappeared for the moment but I am wondering where it will pop up next.