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La Honda is a small California town located in the Santa Cruz Mountains between Silicon Valley and the Pacific coast. Its population is approximately 1500 with a few hundred more living on the outskirts of town. It is near the La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve . It's situated alongside Highway 84 on its downward slope towards the Pacific ocean. La Honda is well known as one of the birthplaces of the Psychedelic era. Ken Kesey , the author of '' One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest '', '' Sometimes A Great Notion '', ''Demon Box'', ''Sailor Song'' and other books, owned a home in La Honda which served as the base of operations for The Merry Pranksters ; they used LSD and other drugs, legal at the time, in order to open their minds to the vast potential of human ecstatic experience. The escapades of Kesey and the Merry Pranksters are documented in Tom Wolfe's " The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ," which describes the wildly painted school bus, 'Furthur,' driven by Neal Cassady , who had been the frenetic driver in Jack Kerouac 's '' On The Road ''. The La Honda house where Kesey's adventures became famous - one mile west of Applejack's saloon - has been faithfully restored after years of neglect and a near catastrophic flood in 1998. |
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