Interesting Article about Backpacking and the Hippie Connection

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On the road again

In the past, young travellers took to the Hippy Trail in search of new experiences, new ideas and a new way of living. But with the revolution in air travel, today's 'hippies' have different goals entirely - to have a laugh before they settle down. Melanie McGrath sees a shift in spiritual and social values

Saturday June 10, 2000

Guardian

A man at my local Buddhist Centre in Brighton used to be a hippy, but he gave it up and became a monk instead. Just over 26 years ago, Padamasana (not his real name) was a garden-variety hippy teen from a middle-class London suburb. He didn't wash all that often. His hair was long. When he wasn't hitching to free festivals or dropping acid at the houses of his friends, Padamasana was inclined to shut himself away in his bedroom, re-reading Siddharta and spacing out to the Floyd. His mother, who loved him in spite of this, nonetheless despaired of his sanitary habits. Mercifully, she knew nothing of his drug ones.

In 1974, Padamasana felt moved to act.

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PeakXV

Fantastic read! Thank you!

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anilkhare

Its An Awesome Thread...make This A Sticky...it Inspires Me To Do A Reverse Old Hippy Trail To Britan

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I really enjoyed Melanie Mcgrath´s article and will return to that later, but please don´t copy and paste whole articles, it leaves the site we all love & enjoy vulnerable. Copy the intro, give credit to the author ,provide a link to the original article, make your own comment and everybody wins : authors get shown under their own byline, the original hosting site gets their deserved hits, mikers get a richer discussion and Mike and the admins don´have to deal with angry stuff in the inbox.