Kundalini and the Art of Being ... 19From there, I hoped to catch a ride out to the national Rainbow
Gathering in Missouri that summer—and visit the two communities
I’d researched, either on the way there or the way back. Though I
still kept school in mind as a last resort for the fall, I hoped that I
would instead be settling down at one of the communities I visited,
or else somewhere else that I might discover along the way.
At the end of May, I moved my few boxes of belongings back down
to Ukiah, then hitched again up to my studio and spent a few days
getting packed and organized and cleaning up the apartment. Then
late one morning I turned my key in to the apartment manager and
left Arcata for good, hitching north along the coast towards Oregon.