And as for eleven year old traveling by themselves to a foreign country on a bus, I also did that in the 70’s. I asked my mother about it 20 years later because I couldn’t believe she would allow us to do this. She said I conveniently left out the part about an unchaperoned bus and she thought we went to “Kenmore Days” with my friend’s father!

I approximate this adventure with the stories of the teenagers who meet someone on-line today and secretly take a plane half way around the world to meet them. Technology has upped the ante.