Sid's Place - Tom Calder's Life Underground in the Psychedelic Sixties of California‪.‬

I wrote this Sid's Place book a long time ago.  One of my motives for writing this book was to explore how things might have gone for me under different circumstances, especially regarding murder.  Like Tom, I got busted in my van, but I hung around and got a lucky break when my Uncle offered to take me in, in St. John's, Newfoundland.  My friend went to jail, I was exiled to Newfoundland. (That was 1970.  I spent two years hitchhiking from the Canadian Pacific to Atlantic Oceans.)

Another motive for writing this book was to explore the possible error of my passivity.  Somehow, I take a quiet pride in the fact I have not killed anyone, and despite opportunities and good reasons, still decided not to.  In this story I pushed myself to the limit where I would take a life, purposefully.  Better my imagination than reality.

As for the drug tripping, I explored that plenty in reality, or different realities.  I've got a lot more of those stories to tell.

So enjoy a glimpse of my teenage world.  Sadly, as civilization seems to be heading toward less love and more war, you can see a generation that fought this trend of violence.

Love,
Coyote