Backpacker Memories After Hitchhiking Around the World

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Naomi Molten hitchhiked around the world including New Zealand and Australia. (Photo: Robin van Mourik/Flickr)

Naomi Molten hitchhiked around the world including New Zealand and Australia. (Photo: Robin van Mourik/Flickr)

The World’s Alex Gallafent tells the story of Naomi Molten, an 82-year-old Englishwoman who hitchhiked around the world in the 1950s.

Molten is a veteran traveler who trained as a PE teacher.

In her youth Naomi wanted to explore the world and spent 18 years hitchhiking around the globe.

She recalls her adventures as a young woman in the 1950s traveling mainly on her own to many countries including New Zealand, Australia, India and Pakistan, Afghanistan and the North West Frontier.

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3 comments for “Backpacker Memories After Hitchhiking Around the World”

  • http://profiles.google.com/baptox Joan Bartos

    What a wonderful story about Naomi Molton’s world travels after WWII!  Her adventures sound absolutely intriguing!  I hope she is getting all of her adventures written-up as they would make a fascinating travel book. Thank you for this lovely interview.

  • Anonymous

    This interview reminded me of the interview of animal
    behavioralist and former University of Toronto biologist Anne Innis Dagg on the
    CBC Radio program “Ideas” about her experiences studying giraffe in South
    Africa in the mid-Fifties.  The interview
    was prompted by the publication of her memoir “Pursuing giraffe: a 1950s adventure” [Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier
    University Press, 2006].  She circumvented
    gender biases and observed the widening racial discrimination as she travelled
    widely in southern and eastern Africa studying her beloved giraffe.  The interview may be heard at:  http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2011/12/15/wild-journey-the-anne-innis-story-2/

  • Anonymous

    This interview reminded me of the interview of animal
    behavioralist and former University of Toronto biologist Anne Innis Dagg on the
    CBC Radio program “Ideas” about her experiences studying giraffe in South
    Africa in the mid-Fifties.  The interview
    was prompted by the publication of her memoir “Pursuing giraffe: a 1950s adventure” [Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier
    University Press, 2006].  She circumvented
    gender biases and observed the widening racial discrimination as she travelled
    widely in southern and eastern Africa studying her beloved giraffe.  The interview may be heard at:  http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2011/12/15/wild-journey-the-anne-innis-story-2/