The Adventures of Superfreak: My Childhood on the Hippie Trail

In 1970, Caleb’ s family hit the Hippie Trail from Amsterdam to India in search of nirvana and/or hash— whatever came first.

Caleb’ s disabled parents, Sam (a paraplegic professor who used a wheelchair) and Carol (a frustrated feminist with an undiagnosed bipolar disorder) dropped out of mainstream society to travel overland in a VW bus with three little kids. Caleb was the oldest at five.

Sam and Carol promised the journey would be a great adventure. But familial unity was not something Ca...