.comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}

Music Memories + Songs

Monday, September 29, 2008

On a bus for sale

I wonder whatever happened to the bus that Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters rode around the country in 1967 or thereabouts, as chronicles by Tom Wolfe in one of the great books of the hippie era. I think Kesey died a few years ago, as I recall. I think I recall reading that the bus was not in use any more, but was on his farm. I wonder if that is a bus for sale? It could be worth a lot of money to the right collector -- someone rich but who still had nostalgia for the hippie days. Maybe someone who did a lot of acid but who's now rich. Stephen King comes to mind, for one. At least, he did a lot of acid and is now rich. I don't know if he's much a collector of hippie artifacts.