Hi Lee. You should have a great time. Colorado is spectacular. I lived in Boulder for a year from mid '79 to mid '80.
Yes you can call me an old hippie although I became a highly successful banker in the Middle East but was unorthodox and never on Wall Street.
I have extracted the story about youthful drug taking from my book, 'An American Youth' and will organize it. I think that it will need to go into two parts, one on marijuana and one on psychedelics.
I'm not sure when I will put it out there as I have a large number of stories piling up. There's a current six part story on MMM Mondays concerning a very louche party I hosted in Las Vegas. Next week a ten part series on attitudes to alcohol and drug consumption in the Middle East starts on Serial Stories and I continue to put out compilations of jokes, both good and bad. I am a little discouraged about that fact at the moment as I am getting few reads on my stories about sex, personal memoirs, my musical script etc. but I am getting thousands of reads on these jokes none of which I have written. I've merely culled them from the internet.
Have a good trip and I send you some links in due course.