Cocky bugger, glad to be done with college. Crete 1980.

The travel-bug is an addiction. Like a disease. Once you get it, your eyes will always be on the horizon, and restlessness will gnaw at you. There is a tribe to sustain you, though.

It bores even me, but if you’re interested, here is my travel list thus far:

Early 1960s – Family vacations – mostly Yosemite, Tahoe and the Mojave.

1969 – Arizona & Colorado. Three weeks.

1973 – Started hitching around the Bay Area, mostly camping at Big Sur and Point Reyes.

1976 − 12,000 miles hitchhiking across the USA and Canada, and back. An adventurous learning experience, with two buddies. Ten weeks.

1978 – England, Scotland and Wales. Comfy UCSB choir tour. Six weeks.

1980 – Israel, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, and Paris. Five months.

1983 – Hitchhiking: Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, UK, Ireland, Northern Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco. Thirteen months.

1991 – My first round-the-world trip. London, Kenya, India, Nepal, Bangkok, home.

1994 – Second round-the-world trip. NY, London, Hungary, Japan, Hawaii, home.

1995 – Peru and Equador. Lima, Cusco, Macchu Pichu, Quito and the Galapagos.

1999 – Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Four months.

1997 to 2007 – A lot of 2-week trips, often for scuba diving, mostly to Hawaii, Mexico, Costa Rica and the Caribbean.

2007 − 2008,  A one-month road-trip around the USA, then nine months around the world. Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Bali, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, India, South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Denmark, then home to Hawaii, where I sit today, dreaming of the next big adventure.