Exciting Counter-culture life's. This humorous Fiction story covers many true like episodes and adventures of a disillusioned Viet Nam veteran and his next-door neighbor, a seventeen year old country boy that loses his father to cancer. Buddy Hemp, the vet, teams up with Seventeen Year old Joe Fuller, who has speech impairment. Buddy and Joe, using Buddy's Father's moonshine money, buys a store and soon adds a tavern. On the side, they plant marijuana and add money to their nest egg. After help from a rich Viet Nam veteran friend of Buddy's, a trucking business yields high dollars. With guidance of others, these two, along with business associates go from rags to riches within a thirty year period. Each has a family of loved ones, and a few unusual friends. It is a story that will catch your attention from the start and when you're finished, you'll read it again.