Born in Milwaukee and educated in Boston, Theodore P. Druch went on to take a "higher" degree at Timothy Leary's LSD commune at Millbrook, NY. He has written about this experience in a "true" novel, Timothy Leary and the Madmen of Millbrook. After his graduation from the Psychedelic Academy, he went on to become a general contractor in San Francisco, mostly remodeling old Victorians. Their houses anyway. At the age of fifty-eight, he and his partner, Maria Ruiz, chucked it all and ran away from home to see the world. They spent ten years traveling to fifty-two countries, and living in several