Robert was in his mid-20s when the community was founded in 1974 under the ownership of Rainbow Valley Company. "When the hippies bought it, they said no to (conventional) farming and burning, so ...

He wrote it in 1978 when, at 23, he put his piano teaching practice on pause to travel on the “hippie trail,” taking a 3,000-mile journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu, Nepal, through areas that ...