In mid-1972, Keyes outfitted a bus for living, sold his yacht, disposed of most of his possessions, and began traveling west with a group of other people, visiting places such as Taos, New Mexico and the Rainbow Gathering at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
Having outgrown the Berkeley center, in mid-1977 the organization bought a 150-acre (607,000 m²) property in St. Mary, Kentucky that had been a Catholic seminary.