This is a must-read book for anyone interested in knowing what it was like to travel overland through Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and East Asia during the 1960s. What were the roads like? What dangers existed? What opportunities were available that are now gone?

The author and her husband left the US in 1965 and bought a used VW van in Europe. They traveled through countries that no longer exist, and through regions that are now new countries. In that earlier era before cell phones or the Internet, communication was so limited that at times several months passed before they could pick up mail.

The author’s detailed journal entries allowed her to revisit their two-year trip, including escaping from a cholera epidemic in Iraq, sleeping in a maharaja’s palace in Pakistan, floating down the Mekong River in Laos, and relaxing in a furo in Japan.

With this book, you will find yourself on an incredible journey that could not be taken today.