Overland Before the Hippie Trail. Kathmandu and Beyond with a Van a Man and No Plan
In 1965, Patricia and her new husband set off for a honeymoon in Europe. Maybe, she thought, they’d be home for Christmas. Little did she know that their trip would turn into a two-year journey that would take them around the world on a bare-bones budget, living in a camper van for the first year and then making their way across Asia by train, bus, hitchhiking, and ships. In those days of no mobile phones, no Internet, and few guidebooks, they were out of contact with family for months at a time while dodging a quarantine in Iraq, meeting with a maharaja in India, sleeping in a palace in Pakistan, and floating down the Mekong River in Laos. The journey had become a way of life.