The events from La Honda are described in Tom Wolfe's book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.
Neal Cassady drove Further on its initial road trip from La Honda, California, to New York City to celebrate publication of Ken Kesey's 1964 novel, Sometimes a Great Notion.
Or How a Nice Catholic Boy Became a Merry Prankster, a Pornographer and a Bridegroom Seven Times, is both autobiography and a valuable history of mid-century American Bohemia, the last days of journalism and the heyday of psychedelic drugs.
Quarnstrom describes rubbing shoulders and making friends with a wide spectrum of well-known writers and artists – such as Paul Krassner, founder and editor of The Realist, the late Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, poet Allen Ginsberg, death-and-dying spiritual counselor Stephen Levine, musicians such as Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, and Neal Cassady, hero of several Jack Kerouac novels and driver of Further, Kesey's psychedelically painted old school bus.
also recounts his ongoing sorrow following the 1982 fatal shooting of his 18-year-old son, Eric, near some of the San Francisco beatnik bars where Quarnstrom had hung out with other writers and artists and musicians.
In 2015, Lee Quarnstrom appeared at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California to read from his memoir and at the Bookshop Santa Cruz as part of a 50th anniversary celebration of the Prankster's first Acid Test.