<p>For hoboes, the West was the land of milk and honey, of adventure, scenery, and easy living. A “land stowaway” hopped the first transcontinental train, and for six more decades they rode the rails</p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The author of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ never set foot on our shores, but he had a clear and highly personal vision of what we were and what we had been</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">How Southern California capitalism and one mysterious loner met, courted, married, and gave birth to our modern surfing culture</span></p>
