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In the second week of September 1970, I boarded a Greyhound bus for New York City. I had a few last minute tasks before boarding my Icelandic Airlines flight. I knew that I would be crossing a number of international borders traveling from Luxembourg to India. If I hoped for a relatively smooth journey, I would need as many visas as I could obtain before leaving the US. So I dutifully made the rounds of the various consulates in NYC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my efforts, I ended up with tourist visas for Yugoslavia (for some reason I didn’t need a visa for travel through Bulgaria), Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Nepal. I don’t think that Turkey required a visa for US citizens in 1970. I was surprised by how easy the process was at most embassies, although I remember the staff of the Afghan consulate seeming a bit scattered. I always wondered if they had received something other than documents in their diplomatic pouches from Afghanistan. Afghanistan was notable at that time for its high quality hashish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that was left for me to do was to hop on the “Hippie Express” and begin my Indian Odyssey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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