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Backpacking Back then

Traveling around with a pack in the late 1960's & 70's
Several people have asked what it was like to backpack around in the late 60's and early 70's. There are 6 posts in this series.
They are in sequence beginning with
Backpacking way back then.

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Drug addicts plus an English whore and a big black dog

It had been an interesting four months. A contract to IBM, Netherlands, saw...
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That stint in Frankfurt

Arriving in Montpellier, after the floods of Barcelona and fires of France was...
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Things are different today

How often do I hear that? You've gone off on a gap year,...
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Transconning the USA in 1968

It was late June 1968, this guy was passing out loaves of bread....
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Unknown roads

Having raised two children of my own, I know that four years old...
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Backpacking way back then

They wanted to take stuff from one place to another so it was...




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