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The Magic Bus

I’ve been seeking the elusive “magic bus” ever since I first read the book “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” in the mid eighties. This book tells the story of some far out hippies (the “Merry Pranksters”) who tripped across America in the 1960’s in a day glow school bus – spreading music, acid and love in their wake.

As a college student during the Reagan eighties, I felt I’d missed the magic bus and that it had driven far out of sight long before my time. But during the annual Harmony Festival a man took me to a reincarnated magic bus co created by Scotty Miller – the Magic Bus Tripsmaster - and his artist companion Peri Pfenninger. I had just bought an Indian peace pipe and with the help of a few goddesses and pranksters we christened the pipe in the bus.

The original magic bus from the sixties, called “Further”, is rusting and decaying in a field in Oregon. But its soul searching joyous journey lives on in Scott’s bus and the magic that is created by the ebb and flow of its passengers.

View more of the Magic Love Buses amazing adventures below:

The Magic Love Bus leads the annual Love Parade in San Francisco.

The Magic Love Bus camps out at the 40th anniversary of Woodstock (Woodstock Flashback).

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Magic Bus Ride from the movie “Across the Universe”

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