“This girlfriend who I lived with and I hitched to Franconia Notch from Cambridge, and there were just adventures along the way—and we didn’t have any money or anything—I don’t know if we stayed in a motel or what, but we were just, like, madly in love with each other, and it was just a wonderful experience—and I was young, I was only 21 or 22—but there were just, like, visions I had of her…”