Dewey Kennedy is going places: He thumbs his way,” wrote T.W. Paterson in The Islander, the Daily Colonist weekend supplement, December 12, 1963. His article recounted the wanderlust that led 19-year-old Dewey Kennedy on a six-week 8,000 mile hitchhiking tour of five provinces and 14 American states. This was just the beginning. For the next decade he thumbed his way throughout North and Central America, before settling in Costa Rica.

Where did his thumb lead? Read Dewey’s tales of: excitement, employment, education, entrepreneurship, cross-cultural learning, romance, danger, natural disasters, and more.

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