In order to secure his first passport, the author was flown from what was then a British colony to New York in 1970.
He returned to the Bahamas weeks later.
Raised in a footloose family, were road and rail trips in the US and EU and voyages to lesser visited islands via mailboat.
At age 13 Eric spent a summer packing grocery bags in Nassau for tips to earn the airfare to join a friend in rural Ireland, then flew alone to Sweden.
There, on distant rail platforms, distant relativ.
Island Books Travel diaries, paperback/eric wiberg
