I left my home in Santa Cruz, California on April 5, 2015 up the west coast to Portland and Alsea, Oregon. On April 28, 2015 I will board VIA Rail in Vancouver, B.C., across Canada to New York City, where I will board the Queen Mary 2 to cross the Atlantic to Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, the South Pacific, South America, Central America. I returned home in April 2016.

Click here to READ my column, “Saying Goodbye to the West” published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel on April 16, 2015.