This is an addendum to the story. I got to talk to a lot of those hippies who were thumbing out of the New Orleans Pop Festival in 1969, before Tarzan, Throttle and I did what we had to do. We had to make it back to New Orleans. We were in seamen's school and we intended to make it onto the water.
But the hippies we met at that festival were quite different than us. I was looking at hippies out on the Airline Highway that didn't even have shoes, no coat, no sleeping bag, no nothing. They told me that they were headed to New York to the next pop festival. They were broke bums but they intended to make it to this next pop festival.
It was on the TV news in New Orleans. They showed all these hippies thumbing out of Prairieville (my ugly mug didn't get seen), headed to this so called next festival in New York.
It turned out that next festival, in New York, came to be. They called it Woodstock.
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