In this story, the author Rich Sherman’s childhood years merge with his adolescence as he finds himself in adventures with his surfing tribe to the beaches of Southern California, Mexico, and Hawaii. Hawaii is a link that connects Rich to Panama. The reader will be inspired as they travel with the author through life’s twists and turns of his college years from living in his 1963 VW bus, to living in a yoga ashram, then to the cold garage of his brother’s house. A life-changing three-night incarceration in the Los Angeles County jail begins a turning point. Life begins to change as he finds himself in university student housing. A simple gift of a writing journal becomes a portal to a new evolving self in search of the promised New Age of Aquarius.