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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
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Silent Interviews
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Stories about the mysterious Telepathic Guild Invisible People
The Relocation Blues
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: hitchhiking
The World Is Changing
The world is changing… If you are familiar with The Lord of the Rings you have come across this quote. In the first film, The Fellowship of the Rings, the elven ring bearer Galadriel says it in the very beginning. … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged changes, Christmas, COVID, hitchhiking, memoir, memories, On The Road, travel
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Another Look: World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
In the 1970s, after the Altamont Rock Festival, the Manson Family cult murders, and the fiasco of the Vietnam War many young people, disillusioned by the hippy movement, began to leave their homelands and travel to the far places of … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Europe, hitchhiking, India, Middle East, Nepal, quest, seventies, travel
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The Cold
The main life event I am experiencing right now is the excruciating cold here in Yakima, Washington. As I write this at the desk in my bedroom, the window is frozen shut and icicles hang along the inside of the … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Travel
Tagged cold weather, hitchhiking, India, memoir, Nepal, Rivisondoli, Seattle, travel, Yakima
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It’s Been a Long, Strange Trip
For this reflective look back upon my life I find myself in sun-baked Brooklyn, New York. I didn’t plan to be in New York at this time. I had just moved from San Diego, California to Yakima, Washington when I … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, On Writing, Travel
Tagged hitchhiking, Song of the Open Road, The Road, traveling, Walt Whitman, Writing
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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search by John Walters – Now Available!
My new memoir, “World Without Pain: The Story of a Search” has just been published and is now available at Amazon, Smashwords, and other outlets. Here is the description from the back cover: “In the 1970s, after the … Continue reading
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Tagged hippies, hitchhiking, memoir, personal quest, travel, World Without Pain
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Greece: A Memoir; Part 2: First Contact
(This is an excerpt of a memoir-in-progress of my life in Greece.) I first entered Greece in the summer of 1976. It was the culmination of a grand hitchhiking arc I had made through Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, and Yugoslavia. … Continue reading