During the thirty-two years that Gordon McLean taught high school none of his colleagues or students suspected that, beginning at age fifteen, he had survived seven seasons of hoboing.
A bank manager's son, the young McLean was driven only by boredom and a lust for adventure.
Hoboing was a colorful way of life that is gone forever and there are only a diminishing few survivors who can explode the myths and tell us what it was really like. McLean is one such survivor.
His experiences varied from audacious, hilarious, heart-stopping, thoughtful, spiritual, and almost mystical.
Now at age eighty the ex-hobo still.
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