However, even though I never made it to India and Nepal until I went from december to April 1985 and 1986 4 or 5 months

I did join the "Back to the Land" movement by buying remote land on beautiful land at 4000 feet elevation and building my own A Frame and we home schooled our children then (My son from my first marriage and her two children from her first marriage. She and I were the same age when we got together which was 32 then.

Then in 1985 we went to India and Nepal and Thailand and through Japan from San Francisco.

The idea of the Back to the land movement was always avoiding any Rent or mortgages so you could travel the world with whatever money you made instead of being trapped for life by a mortgage in a 9 to 5 job.

However, it is true that owning one's own businesses where you set when you can travel and no one else is a part of all this if you want to be a world traveler with the money you would otherwise be paying all the time in rent or mortgages.

However, this is how my friends thought and also my best friend's father built his own house in Palos Verdes after buying his land and my own father and I built his retirement home weekends from 1968 until he retired in 1980.

So, buying land with the "Back to the land" movement in some ways came naturally to my friend and I. we also surrounded ourselves that thought this way about life too.

all of us had been to college and so we all thought sort of "Outside the box" and didn't want to be trapped in a Llfelong work and mortgage Trap like we saw so many people were while growing up in the 1950s.

So, it was a choice always to be a world traveler and to home school your kids so you could always travel with them around the world whenever you could afford to.

It was and is a way of life for many still of my generation of Baby Boomers even though we are all now in our 70s and 80s many of us are still alive and kicking and traveling the world still!