SANTA FE NATIONAL FOREST, NEW MEXICO – JULY 6:
Moe exhales a breath of cigarette smoke during a road-trip to a hot-spring, an hours drive away from the Rainbow Gathering, on July 6, 2009, New Mexico.

Every summer hundreds of American nomads, vagabond teenagers and youth make their way to the National Rainbow Gathering, an annual festival which takes place during the weeks surrounding the 4th of July weekend in a different national park in America. In 2009 the Rainbow Gathering was held in New Mexico. Most of the youth known at the gathering as “The Dirty Kids”, travel around the country during the rest of the year. They have been described as ÔWonderersÕ, individuals traveling via train-hopping or mobile home, living in utopian communities, gathering at outdoor festivals, dwelling in communal housing projects and forming fellowships over brief and extended periods of time.
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