After
spending a long time on deciding where I want to go for my Road Trip
project, my choice falls on La Honda. I am interested in the history
of the 60's and I really like Ken Kesey, so vising the place where he
started his Acid Tests is going to be awesome! I researched La Honda
a little bit before settling my choice on it, and one resource said
that pages of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were
written all over the walls of Kesey's La Honda residence
(source: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe).
I don't know if Kesey's
old house is open to visitors, but I would love to explore it. I also
want to learn more about the Acid Tests, where they started out, and
what influence they had on the culture of California. This part of
the history of La Honda corresponds to my interests in literature and
the history of LSD.
La
Honda is located in the beautiful coastal redwood forest in the Santa
Cruz mountains. Nature is a big passion of mine, so I am excited to
see what the area around La Honda looks like. During my brief
research I also learned that the forest around La Honda was pretty
wild back in the 19th
century, and the first settlers had to fight with big fierce animals
such as grizzly bears and mountain lions for food (source:
La Honda by
Bob Dougherty). It is going
to be interesting to learn about how the first settlers
in La Honda dealt with the struggles of starting a town in the wild
and what effects their settlement had on nature.
La
Honda is about 1.5-2 hours away from where I live. I plan on making
this a day trip and inviting a couple of friends to come along. The
tentative date for my road trip is Friday, March 21.
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