Black shiny FBI shoes and the bladder totem.

I just started this book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. I've been so busy lately with work and tutoring and trying to save cats from the shelter that I haven't had much time to read. But i've gotten into it!
As  the book starts the narrator, Tom Wolfe, is riding in a rickity told pickup truck with a group of hippies heading to a warehouse. They're all dressed oddly with gnome like hats and beads down to their bellies with jesuschrist strung out hair.They're all waiting for the freedom of their leader who had recently been arrested because of possesion of drugs in San francisco. Wolfe explains the scene of his brief visit to Kesey while he was in the jail and he says it "was more like the stage door at a music box theatre full of cheer and anticipation". While Wolfe is there, Kesey tells him, through the large glass plates of the holding cell, that he wants to take a pschedelic movement. A movement of free love and a large usage of LSD. Kesey calls it the acid test and though he doesn't fully explain what he means, he says it has something to do with "all the senses opened wide, words, music, lights, sounds, touch-lighting".
Before meeting up with the merry pranksters, Wolfe stays in San Francisco, north beach, and enjoys the night clubs (that were made famous by Jack kerouac, who I talked about in my first reading log). He finds himself in topless bars and in the center of the hippie culture that had recently taken over Haight-Ashbury. He goes to the warehouse, which is a converted parking garage and the gang stays there for a few days. There is no indoor plumbing so they either have to relieve themselves outside or in an abandoned bathroom. Wolfe carries around the bathroom key as though it's his "bladder-totem". They're all inside of this gloomy place, sleeping on matresses and listening to Bob Dylan whom is singing through a hidden stereo. He comes across two hippies, The Hermit and Mountain Girl, who are painting a bus that reads "ACID TEST GRADUATION".