Getting Naked

How could the “California Experience” be complete if there wasn’t a section on getting naked and communing with nature in the altogether?  That’s why I took my time describing the diverse action at Big Sur on pages 167-171.  It happened upland at the Big Sur Gorge, fed by the clean, rushing Big Sur River. What you read is exactly how it went down.  My intent was to show society “as it should be,” in total freedom, with no one being bothered or upset should someone decide to drop his or her drawers.  Indeed, it was a playground paradise!  Though there were plenty of tasty sights (if I say so myself), the point I am trying to make with all this comes when Otto and Roger are heading out of the park. Roger spots the beautiful Polynesian girl back at her own campsite, “stirring goulash in a pot with a stick.”  She is still topless, going about her cooking just as calm as can be.  As the guys pass her, Roger and the woman nod to one another, with serious direct eye contact. Roger tells Otto, “You’re seeing society as it should be, friend.  Freedom heightens the jocular.  That’s our basic formulation for the 1970’s and beyond.”  Otto agrees.  That calls for an “Amen,” with no reason to alter my opinion today!