Most hippies, in their thirst for travel, relied on a big book called ‘Europe on 5 dollars a day’. It existed so that people could discover ideas on where to meet next, how to explore the world (and not in a touristy sort of a way) and how to find the next great trail to be followed. Hippies had a novel way of communicating with each other - via the ‘invisible post’. They were on a spiritual journey, seeking the meaning of life and get deeply in touch with themselves.
Hippies were beyond using labels to attach to themselves and define who they should be or how they should act. Hippies challenged the established ways everything from conservative behavior to excessive consumerism to unbalanced concentration of wealth was detested by them. They lived in harmony with nature, experimented with communal living, sex and recreational drugs. These long-long-haired youngsters who wore vibrant clothes, tucked flowers in their hair, danced, sang and meditated were unconventional for their times. The Woodstock Music Festival, for instance, one of the monumental events in the history of hippie culture, attracted more than 400,000 people. The hippie movement started in the 1960s in the United States and attracted youngsters by the tens of thousands. This book is considered to be the most autobiographical of his works - one that gives a brief glimpse into his life as he nostalgically relives the days when he was in search for the meaning of his existence. Welcome to the days of the 1970s, when the hippie counterculture was gathering quite a reputation and Paulo Coelho was a hippie.
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