The Long Haul is also a behind-the-scenes look at the moving industry, revealing what really happens when we call in “the movers.” Some 40 million Americans move each year, and very few have any idea what they’re getting into or the kind of person to whom they are relinquishing their worldly goods. As he crisscrosses the country, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades, from the hollowing-out of small towns to changing tastes in culture and home furnishings. Going far beyond the myth of the American road trip, he whisks readers down the I-95 Powerlane, across the Florida Everglades, in and out of the truck stops of the Midwest, and through the steep grades of the Rocky Mountains. In The Long Haul, Murphy offers a trucker’s-eye view of America on the move. Known by his trucker handle as U-Turn, he spends his days (and many of his nights) in a 53-foot eighteen-wheeler he calls Cassidy. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles packing, loading, and hauling people’s belongings all over America. More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Told with Murphy’s trademark wit, keen eye for character, and sharp insights into the hardscrabble society around him, Rocky Mountain High is an inside look at the alluring world of the hemp boom and a masterful tale of one entrepreneur’s misadventures.Help us celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Thacker Mountain Radio at the Lyric Theater. Pretty soon, Murphy is pitting his dwindling cash against the mercurial buyers who inhabit the Wild West of the hemp market. And he assembles an eclectic crew of workers, including the wry and vastly talented Manuel, the business savvy Pierce, and a scruffy army of “trimmigrants” - specialized farm laborers who roam the country pursuing (or not) their own American Dreams. He battles with freezing temperatures and even colder bankers. He builds drying sheds the size of football fields. Pivoting away from growing hemp himself, he decides to make himself a middleman. Rocky Mountain High is the comic chronicle of a wild year as Murphy follows his Great American Dream, gradually losing his shirt but not his spirit. What could go wrong? Well, pretty much everything… Figuring he’d harvest some of that easy money, Murphy bought a thirty-six-acre farm. Before long he noticed that many of his neighbors were captivated by the prospect of vast riches in “the Hemp Space.” When hemp was legalized, after eighty years in federal exile, Colorado became the center of a hemp growing and processing boom. Fter decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado.
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