May 1974: A woman scorned and an affair to remember. The “Free-sex” of our hippy culture sometimes extracted a high price. I meet a 19 year old bicyclist who rode her bike a 1000 miles and begin recounting how I started the British Columbia, Pat Lake Commune.

February 1972: Traveling in Nova Scotia, interviewing organic Back-To-The-Land people. Visited Earth Rider Farms commune; Bryan’s Hotel in Bear River; Peter Ripple a woodworker; Lynn and Judy Curtis in Middleton, NS; my former girlfriend of 2 years, Kristine Stone; tearful reunion with her daughter, Amy Stone; Bill Anderson/Patricial Miffin communal house; Discovered unbelievably low prices for land: $1,500 for 75 acres and $500 for 69 acres, both with buildings.

February 1972: Traveling in Nova Scotia, interviewing organic Back-To-The-Land people. Interviewed Chris & Annie Griffith; David Prior & Mary Troyar; Burton & Bonnie of Earth Rider Farms; and Father McNamara of Nova Nada catholic community for priests and retreats.

Spring-Summer 1971: As a fugitive from a drug bust in the states I make the best of my situation. In 1971 Kristine Stone, her daughter Amy and myself become a family. We travel around British Columbia selling our products (natural foods candies and sandals) as gypsy entrepreneurs. I experience swimming in a sea of light, with phosphorescent plankton. And I reminisce about the British Columbia, Pat Lake Commune, especially the virgin forest tree spirits that became so excited by our music they joined in as a heavenly sounding choir all of us could hear.