In 1967 Andrew had just moved to Newport Beach to begin his junior year at California State College in Long Beach. By a chance meeting he met a high school English Teacher who intrigued him of tales of travel to the places of Earnest Hemingway. It was that influence that created the passion to not only go but to return against incredible odds.

Andrew McKay is a retired business man who spent time during his youth traveling in Europe, Central and South America and Africa. This memoir tells of his first experience in Europe where he fell in love with the people and places and his subsequent adventure of attempting to return three years later.