Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love - The New York Times
Nina Burleigh
My dad, divorced, remarried and pushing 80, was hale and hearty and game enough to come along with us, a living link to an episode in the history of “Frisco” — as he still calls it — and the Beats and the counterculture that my children know about as a footnote in their American history books.
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