Editing Hippie (section)

===Travel===
[[File:Gypsy Van Front.jpg|thumb|Hand-crafted Hippie Truck, 1968]]

Hippies tended to travel light, and could pick up and go wherever the action was at any time. Whether at a [[love-in]] on [[Mount Tamalpais]] near San Francisco, a demonstration against the Vietnam War in Berkeley, or one of [[Ken Kesey]]'s "Acid Tests", if the "vibe" was not right and a change of scene was desired, hippies were mobile at a moment's notice. Planning was eschewed, as hippies were happy to put a few clothes in a backpack, stick out their thumbs and hitchhike anywhere. Hippies seldom worried whether they had money, hotel reservations or any of the other standard accoutrements of travel. Hippie households welcomed overnight guests on an impromptu basis, and the reciprocal nature of the lifestyle permitted greater freedom of movement. People generally cooperated to meet each other's needs in ways that became less common after the early 1970s.<ref>{{harvnb|Yablonsky|1968|p=201}}</ref> This way of life is still seen among [[Rainbow Family]] groups, [[new age travellers]] and New Zealand's [[housetrucker]]s.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Sharkey |first1=Mr. |last2=Fay |first2=Chris |title=Gypsy Faire |website=Mrsharkey.com |url=http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/misctruk/gypsytrk.htm |access-date=2007-10-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113204525/http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/misctruk/gypsytrk.htm |archive-date=November 13, 2007 }}</ref>

[[File:Gypsy Van Interior.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Hippie Truck interior]]

A derivative of this free-flow style of travel were the hippie trucks and buses, hand-crafted mobile houses built on a truck or bus chassis to facilitate a nomadic lifestyle, as documented in the 1974 book ''Roll Your Own''.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/rollown/rollown.htm |title=Book Review - Roll Your Own |website=MrSharkey.com |access-date=2012-11-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102043642/http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/rollown/rollown.htm |archive-date=November 2, 2012 }}</ref> Some of these mobile houses were quite elaborate, with beds, toilets, showers and cooking facilities.

On the West Coast, a unique lifestyle developed around the [[Renaissance Faire]]s that Phyllis and Ron Patterson first organized in 1963. During the summer and fall months, entire families traveled together in their trucks and buses, parked at Renaissance Pleasure Faire sites in Southern and Northern California, worked their crafts during the week, and donned Elizabethan costume for weekend performances, and attended booths where handmade goods were sold to the public. The sheer number of young people living at the time made for unprecedented travel opportunities to special happenings. The peak experience of this type was the [[Woodstock Festival]] near [[Bethel, New York]], from August 15 to 18, 1969, which drew between 400,000 and 500,000 people.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/18/newsid_2760000/2760911.stm BBC - On This Day] - 1969: Woodstock music festival ends. "An estimated 400,000 youngsters turned up..." Retrieved December 21, 2013.</ref><ref>"...nearly 500,000 revellers came together for three days and three nights and showed the world what a generation was made of..." ''Woodstock 1969 -  The First Festival''. Landy, Elliott. Ravette Publishing Ltd, 2009. {{ISBN|978-1841613093}}.</ref>

====Hippie trail====
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One travel experience, undertaken by hundreds of thousands of hippies between 1969 and 1971, was the [[Hippie trail]] overland route to India. Carrying little or no luggage, and with small amounts of cash, almost all followed the same route, hitch-hiking across Europe to [[Athens]] and on to [[Istanbul]], then by train through central Turkey via [[Erzurum]], continuing by bus into Iran, via [[Tabriz]] and [[Tehran]] to [[Mashhad]], across the Afghan border into [[Herat]], through southern Afghanistan via [[Kandahar]] to [[Kabul]], over the [[Khyber Pass]] into Pakistan, via [[Rawalpindi]] and [[Lahore]] to the Indian frontier. Once in India, hippies went to many different destinations, but gathered in large numbers on the beaches of [[Goa]] and [[Kovalam]] in [[Trivandrum]] ([[Kerala]]),<ref name="Sherwood">{{citation|url=http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/travel/09goa.html|title=A New Generation of Pilgrims Hits India's Hippie Trail |last=Sherwood|first=Seth|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2008-09-11 | date=April 9, 2006}}</ref> or crossed the border into Nepal to spend months in [[Kathmandu]]. In Kathmandu, most of the hippies hung out in the tranquil surroundings of a place called Freak Street<ref name="Independent">{{citation|url=http://www.ioltravel.co.za/article/view/3549557|title=Have a high time on hippy trail in Katmandu|date=January 30, 2001|newspaper=Independent Online|access-date=2008-09-11 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071011064213/http://www.ioltravel.co.za/article/view/3549557 |archive-date = October 11, 2007}}</ref> ([[Nepal Bhasa]]: Jhoo Chhen), which still exists near Kathmandu Durbar Square.