Divine Right's Trip is a 1972 novel by Gurney Norman

Gurney Norman

Gurney Norman is an American novelist, documentarian, and professor.-Biography:Gurney Norman was born in Grundy, Virginia in 1937...

 set in the 1960s which chronicles the awakening of the hippie

Hippie

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's...

 stoner Divine Right (Davenport) as he travels with his patient and introspective VW Bus, Urge. It was originally printed in installments as an adjunct in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue

Whole Earth Catalog

The Whole Earth Catalog was an American counterculture catalog published by Stewart Brand between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998...

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Initially he travels with his 'lady' Estelle and they meet up with characters such as 'The Lone Outdoorsman' (a curiously warm hearted right-wing reactionary character) and 'The Greek'. Eventually Divine Right finds himself travelling alone back to his Appalachian roots.
Norman also wrote the short story collection Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories (1977).
Both the novel and the short stories share an Appalachian background.