{"id":103,"date":"2020-09-07T17:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/msmaffins.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2020-09-09T16:04:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T16:04:37","slug":"next-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msmaffins.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Next Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/msmaffins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F103&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/msmaffins.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/msmaffins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F103&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/msmaffins.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Throughout the summer months I planned (without the aid of the Internet) how I might make it from NY to India. I had already concluded that I could not afford to fly any farther than Europe on the cheapest airline available, which, at the time, was Icelandic Airlines (referred to by many as the &#8220;Hippie Express&#8221;). That meant that I needed to plan how to travel overland from Luxembourg to India. Beyond that, my plans were fairly nebulous. I would have to make decisions on the fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"585\" src=\"http:\/\/msmaffins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Icelandic-Airline-Ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/msmaffins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Icelandic-Airline-Ad.jpg 420w, https:\/\/msmaffins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Icelandic-Airline-Ad-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the hippies who were making the same journey made a virtue of shedding as many vestiges of affluent Western culture as possible when setting out for their Indian odyssey. Not this guy. I was going to take enough of Western culture with me to be comfortable while searching for enlightenment. I bought a huge red backpack from REI. I had a sleeping bag, air mattress, 3-legged folding leather stool, portable stove, cook kit, carved walking stick, and other items to pave my way to Nirvana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of me with my entire kit on the early morning in early September 1970 when I headed off for New York and the start of my journey. That&#8217;s my mom with her game face on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"844\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/msmaffins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Paul-Leaving-for-India-2-Enhanced-844x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/msmaffins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Paul-Leaving-for-India-2-Enhanced-844x1024.jpg 844w, https:\/\/msmaffins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Paul-Leaving-for-India-2-Enhanced-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/msmaffins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Paul-Leaving-for-India-2-Enhanced-768x932.jpg 768w, https:\/\/msmaffins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Paul-Leaving-for-India-2-Enhanced-1265x1536.jpg 1265w, https:\/\/msmaffins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Paul-Leaving-for-India-2-Enhanced-1687x2048.jpg 1687w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 844px) 100vw, 844px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the summer months I planned (without the aid of the Internet) how I might make it from NY to India. 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