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YOU MET HIM?!?!?!?!?!?

As a child, in Cuba, I read the Voyage of the Kon Tiki, it was the greatest adventure book that I had ever read, still is today.

Smooth seas Thor, fare thee well.

As a child, in Cuba, I read the Voyage of the Kon Tiki, it was the greatest adventure book that I had ever read, still is today.

Ditto... when I was 10 years old Kon Tiki really opened my eyes to what a great adventure reading can be...

Luis, my Dad was an amatuer boat-builder of some renown ( an engineer by training, he grew up on Cape Hatteras in the 1890's and learned the trade from his Dad, who was the bar pilot of Nags Head/Diamond Shoals ) and for some reason "Tor" as my Mom still calls him, stopped by the house to visit. I was so small I only recall a "large" ( but they all were then! ) and friendly man. I still have a copy of Kon-Tiki, which I just tried to locate, but it's buried in a stack of stuff.

My Dad knew a lot of interesting & sometimes famous people, nearly all gone now, as is he- all I can say is "Smooth sailing, clear skies, and a steady wind to you, oldtimers- the world will not see your like again."