Our Summers Of Love

[Canadian Bacon]

I'm not sure if any tpunks are from San Fransisco... but i recently learned about the Summer of Love, like this huge hippie gathering in 1967 and prior, that I thought it was the most awesome and powerful thing in the world.

I definitely would have wanted to be a part of that. Anyway, there are bunch of stories about the Summer of Love... and they're worth reading. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NG2NPUD1C1.DTL

There's also a History Channel documentary on Youtube:

I think the moving thing about it all is that what they strove for during the movement was to not only challenge the establishment, but also an attempt to reach the heights of human happiness. You know, the moments which are so sacred, they are seared into your memories. For myself, and I think for all of you, the only time we've been able to reach and heights of happiness, is though we're backpacking... which makes me think - can backpacking be considered its own movement?

Is backpacking something that is as big as the hippies movement ones? Are there are any collective 'principles' of backpackers? Personally, I go backpacking again and again to experience that world, not just sight-seeing. And backpacking is really like being connected into a different world, a world of happiness. Anyway, I think its a great topic to write a social science paper on.

San Fransisco had their summer of love. I wonder if, for our generation, backpacking is the summer of our love?