Travelling Light: Stories from the world we explored in the 70s

Imagine travel in the days before mass tourism, full airliners and clogged cities. Imagine you have no credit card, no phone, no internet café … but you are young, optimistic, carefree, and you have your wits about you. You love nothing more than the thrill of taking on tomorrow and the next chance encounter as it comes along. No plans, just you, your passport and a change of clothes. It’s the late 1960s and anything is possible. Now imagine that you meet a fellow traveller at a dusty bus stop outside La Paz and before long it’s two for the road, footloose and fancy free. There’s a whole new decade dawning and all the time in the world. Full of colour, beauty, romance and the pleasures of the unknown, this is the true story of life on the road for two young people back in the day when travel was one big adventure. The journey itself is the point of the experience, destinations are vaguely on the other side of the planet and getting there simply takes as long it takes. These really are journeys to write home about. Whether you made a similar journey, or wanted to, or would like to, or are yet to be seduced by the lure of the road less travelled, this is the book for you.