Twisted Vagabondage Tale From Bohemia

On my first visit to communist Czechoslovakia in 1989 (right before the Velvet Revolution), I drove down in my rented Skoda to the legendary Bohemian locus of Cesky Krumlov, the most picturesque village in the country.

I realized that to be truly Bohemian, you had to actually be from the geographical region labeled Bohemia on the map. This charmed historical backwater in a jagged-jigsaw-puzzle-shaped demesne filled with dissidents, drifters and dreamers surely fit the bill.

The unconvention...