Peace, Love and a '59 Plymouth

This was an interesting tale of John Bennett's cross-country car driven journey across America, where after a dismal performance in high school and tanking college, John wants to experience the Summer of Love in San Francisco, California, at the height of the swinging sixties in 1967. He wants to experience the hippie counterculture before he considers enlisting in the United States Marine Corps and serve in the controversial Vietnam War. It takes quite a while before he gets to his final destination, as he stops around the country, in places such as Newburg and Standish, in the state of Missouri, where he needs to fill up his petrol tank and get his car fixed and maintained, so stopovers are necessary as he works odd jobs using whatever expertise he has, to finance his journey and be useful. He meets a lot of unique, eccentric, and dangerous individuals, and has to make and take difficult decisions, and learn a lot of important lessons along the way. This novel was a sensational and wild ride.