My 1984 Year

In August 1984 I took my summer book sales earnings, except what I needed  for another semester of school at BYU and bought a one way ticket to England. I had a two week BritRail pass and 90 day EuroRail pass, and a money belt, and my American Express and my Eagle Creek backpack and left for England and beyond.   After a week in London, I activated the rail pass and explored England and Scotland all the way to she Shetland Islands.  My BritRail expired in Dover, when I boarded the Ferry to Calais.   This was ten years before the revolutionary tunnel, called the Chunnel opened.    I got to Paris, a city I loved for the next 20 years (no more now) and spent all the time  I needed, then activated my EuroRail pass.  Back then, you did not need reservations, you could just show up at the train station and catch a train.  For the next three months I cris-crossed Europe from North to South and West to East.  Ended in Rome when the pass expired and planned on going overland from Greece to Jerusalem to meet up with a friend who was a nanny for the BYU Center there.  The Beirut bombings and hostilities ended that plan, so I just flew to Tel Aviv.  Spent time diving on the Red Sea off Sham El Sheik, went to Egypt and then came home.  Fun trip.  I will have to write more some day…