Overland Before the Hippie Trail, Patricia Noble Sullivan
Overland Before the Hippie Trail, Patricia Noble Sullivan
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Overland Before the Hippie Trail
Kathmandu and Beyond with a Van a Man and No Plan

Author: Patricia Noble Sullivan

Narrator: Margie Valine, Nathan Agin

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Noble Press

Published: 03/03/2023


Synopsis

It is 1965 in this memoir when Patricia and her new husband set off on to Europe on their honeymoon. Little did she know that this trip would stretch into a two-year journey that would take them around the world on a bare-bones budget. While living rarely more than an arm’s distance apart in their VW van, they make their way from Europe and West Asia to South Asia, then continue across East Asia by train, bus, and hitchhiking. In those days with no mobile phones, no Internet, and few guidebooks, they were out of contact with family for months at a time while dodging a cholera epidemic in Iraq, staying in a palace in Pakistan, meeting a maharaja in India, and floating down the Mekong River in Laos. The journey had become a way of life, one in which they found a world that was not only large and varied, but filled with people who were curious, welcoming, and generous.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fiona on November 04, 2024

This is like listening to a story on a long bus ride or in a hostel kitchen. In 1965, newlyweds Mike and Patricia Sullivan set off on what would become the journey of a lifetime. Without Lonely Planet or TripAdvisor to guide them, they depended on luck and the kindness of strangers. Some things have......more

Goodreads review by Reader on July 26, 2024

I devoured this fascinating book in a day and a half. I’ve followed the hippie trail myself in the 90s, but Ms. Sullivan’s pioneering journey in the 60s provides a compelling look at a much more authentic experience. No banana pancakes or elephant pants here! Afghanistan in 1966? She had adventures......more

Goodreads review by Susan on August 11, 2022

I loved this book. It gave me a chance to recall some of my own travels and then went farther and gave me insight into more exotic places I haven't experienced (and maybe never will). Given that the world has changed since the time of the author's travels, it gives us a bit of history. It's a time w......more

Goodreads review by Esther on March 05, 2025

Audiobook......more