Road to Paradise

By Paco Cerulean and Ed Malekismail

Based on the true story of a broken-hearted Aspen ski bum who joined some friends on a psychedelic mountaineering ski trip to a teepee high in the Rockies that sets him off on a wanderlust journey down The Hippie Trail to India. After first seeking the knowledge of a guru in Portland and cavorting his way down the West Coast with three other wild ones in his VW Microbus, in due course he came to climb the Eiffel Tower after it was closed, visit Chartres, Notre Dame, and Saint Peter's Basilica, ride a bicycle across France, fall in love at least four times, view the David and the Mona Lisa, be amazed by van Gogh and Monet, win a false fortune in a card game on a bus in Iran, escape the clutches of the Kabul Narcotics Police, issue a challenge to the commander of a Pakistani army contingent at a border outpost at the base of the Khyber Pass, be held prisoner at a border outpost at the base of the Khyber Pass, visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar, have his fortune told by a swami in Delhi, experience the Taj Mahal on a full moon, explore the funeral ghats of Varanasi, meditate where the Buddha attained Enlightenment, swim at the Kumba Mela in Hardwar, share an orange with a saint, join an expedition to the headwaters of the Ganges with an Tony Award winning actor, decide between his watch and twin thirteen-year-old Aryan princesses as wives, cut the throat of a thief in a mountain village near Tibet, trek along a lost ancient highway, travel to Dharamsala to meet the Dalai Lama, be served tea on sterling silver tea service and fine bone china on a houseboat in Kashmir, climb Kolahoi Glacier, dine at The Hotel Imperial in Delhi, and deliver an ancient scroll to a reincarnated high lama born into a Druid family in England.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966293878
• ISBN13: 9780966293876
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Widening Gyre Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary