Readers familiar with Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” (1968) may sense echoes of Ken Kesey’s 1964 psychedelic ...

Tortoise keeps on truckin' / 'Hippie bus' at 30 is still more about people than places By Spud Hilton , Chronicle Staff Writer Aug 22, 2004 travel_tortoise_sh09.jpg 6/9/04 in Yosemite/Mono Lake.

For those who missed dropping out in the 1960s in a cool VW bus, you can now ride back to the past in style. Volkswagen plans to start selling a reproduction model of the famed microbus, complete w… ...

So what does a chalked-up bus and therapy have to do with one another? Sherman says, "Peace, love and happiness all center around connection." And that's exactly what his bus promotes.

Volkswagen has pulled the wraps off its ID Buzz: a van the company is billing as a spiritual successor to its iconic Microbus. But while the original "hippie bus" was powered by a tiny four ...

I’m on a hippie bus. A rolling commune on a road trip to the Summer of Love. No, not in 1967, but just now in 2017, on a two-hour, time-warped, phantasmagorical journey with San Francisco’s ...

It’s been promised for years. Now it’s finally here. Volkswagen has unveiled the production version of the VW ID. Buzz, a 21st century version of the classic VW Bus. Unlike the noisy and ...

Author Ken Kesey walks beside the original "Furthur" bus, made famous in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" July 17, 2001 on his farm in Pleasant Hill, Ore. Kesey, who railed ...

Jeff and Patti Kinzbach’s latest travels include them meeting a man and his dog, learning about the Hippie Bus Tour and much more. Here’s what the latest Rocking the RV Life podcast is covering.

Known officially as the Volkswagen Type 2, the Hippie Van is known by various names in different international markets, including Bulli, Transporter, Kombi, Microbus, Samba, Campervan, or just Bus ...