Hitchhiking was a common way to get around in the UK when I was a teenager, and I was a confident hitchhiker up to my late 30s. In those 20 years, I probably hitch-hiked more than 10,000 miles in the UK, Europe, Asia, North Africa, Canada and the USA. I owed my success to cardboard…
Category: GeoOdyssey
Tales of travel, associated with work
Kaukahi Kayaks
When I lived in Hawaii I loved the sea. Not being good at surfing, I took up kayaking in about 1981, when my wife Barbara and I met Ann Fielding, a marine biologist well known in Hawaii for her books on Hawaiian fish and her adventure tours.