The Goat Bus Trail

The Goat Bus was a white 1971 Morris Minor ex-Post Office van. It was bought with the vague intention of making an overland trip from England to Nepal-the purpose of which was not at all clear, except perhaps to follow the ‘hippy trail’ that my older sister and her husband had attempted some years earlier. I had very little money and no idea of what was involved.

I made it as far as Holland, where I attempted to get some work to raise funds. When the Dutch police ‘defected’ the van, I…