What Happened To The Hippie Trail? The Legacy Of The Asia Overland Rou

Like Ken, thousands of rebellious Europeans, Americans and Aussies in the 1960s and 1970s threw caution to the wind and traded their suburban upbringings for sarongs, sandals and the allure of the East, marching along the overland route on a journey that would forever alter the course of history. Jack Kerouac, father of the Beats and grandfather of the hippies, may have had something to do with it.