Travels with the Real Oz: Way Back When

In the spring of 1959 Oz West a recent college graduate in civil engineering turned down severaljob interviews and decided instead to buy a ticket to Hawaii to help them celebrate statehood. Little did he know that simple trip would become a six-year enterprise visiting 44 countries in the Far East Australia Southeast Asia the Near East Japan Korea and Europe traveling over 60000 miles before returning to the States living with the locals having adventures and making lifelong friends. This book is his chronicle of that voyage taken Way Back When. Oz maintains to this day that was the right time to see the world.