With a name like the "hippie bus," you might expect a vintage experience, but this travel company offers an affordable, ...

When I caught up with it, the Green Tortoise was parked on North Halsted Street, its passengers dispersed between the Shamrock, a cheerfully noisy Irish bar, and the Blues, a funky jazz club. It ...

I’m on a hippie bus. A rolling commune on a road trip to the Summer of Love. No, not in 1967, but just now in 2017, on a two-hour, time-warped, phantasmagorical journey with San Francisco’s ...

Tortoise keeps on truckin' / 'Hippie bus' at 30 is still more about people than places By Spud Hilton , Chronicle Staff Writer Aug 22, 2004 travel_tortoise_sh09.jpg 6/9/04 in Yosemite/Mono Lake.

The last Volkswagen "hippie bus" is due to roll off an an assembly line in Brazil on Dec. 31. It seems the van that became known as the transportation of choice for counter-culture folks in the ...

First introduced in 1950, the bus became strongly associated with the counterculture movement of the 60s and touring bands such as the Grateful Dead, but it hasn’t kept up with changing times.

The iconic hippie road trip vehicle could get a lot more hippie-friendly with this sustainable, modern makeover. When the classic VW bus was at the height of its popularity in the ’60s, ads ...

Volkswagen reboots its groovy 60s-era VW Bus. ... or just the VW Bus. In America, it became associated with the Hippie movement, but the Bus also provided transportation for large families long ...

It’s been more than 20 years since Volkswagen first promised a reincarnation of the “OG” #vanlife vehicle – that iconic flower-power VW hippie bus. Now, the new, all-electric North ...