Books published by Purple Whale Publishing

During the crazy latter days of the Vietnam War, many young travelers wandered about doing drugs, having sex, sleeping out, and back-packing through Europe, North Africa, and Asia. As a young man coming of age, just out of college, with no clear future and unable to pay rent, the bushy-red-haired Woodstock joins these revelers to wander the world, searching for his soul.Upon beating the Draft, he crosses the Atlantic to the Old World in October 1970 without any particular itinerary, no set time to come "home" and not much money. He finds God everywhere no matter how hard he tries to hide and look away. During his year-long journey, his spontaneous, free-wheeling adventures of raucous, hilarious incidents all weigh heavily against his need to come home and grow up.Come along for this unforgettable adventure of a lifetime.

Have you ever discovered that you are not supposed to be what you have become?This sudden revelation sends the lead character, Ted Senario, to trail blaze a new beginning for himself. A tsunami of counter culture from a traveling rock and roll caravan swallows him up while he is cocooned within his own self-made re-birthing process in nature.Ted is persuaded to embark on a thirty-three day journey of self discovery with his new-found friends. He travels to Washington D.C. in a classic VW 60's era van for a concert festival-then to upstate New York for a few weeks of gatherings, parties and celebrations in the summer of 1993.He befriends the magnetic and mysterious Cricket-a charismatic feminine pied-piper-type. She is offbeat, humorous, engaging, electric! Cricket names Ted, 'The Bohemian,' and inspires him to take an adventure to free his consciousness in order to create a new life direction.