Within the Fifties, Wally Byam organized Airstream caravans to varied unique abroad locales, a practice that continued after his demise in 1961. These journeys, put collectively by the Wally Byam Caravan Membership Worldwide (WBCCI), generated a lot pleasure and buzz each within the locations visited and again house within the USA. Wally wrote, “we really feel that we’ve got unfold extra honest-to-goodness, down-to-earth goodwill within the international locations we’ve visited than all of the striped-pants diplomats put collectively.”
From 1963 to 1964, the Across the World Caravan did simply what its title steered, carefully following an historic route mapped by Marco Polo within the late thirteenth century. The group began in Singapore and 403 days and 31,000 miles later ended the caravan in Lisbon, Portugal. The Nationwide Geographic Society documented this journey, and in 1966 the “Across the World Caravan” miniseries appeared on tv, narrated by the spooky actor. Worth commented on the occasion, “A flying saucer touchdown couldn’t have created extra of an curiosity than an Airstream caravan.”
