Harold Stephens has Died
Twenty-two years ago, in the summer of 1999, I came across a copy of
Blue magazine in a Boston bookstore. What drew me to purchase it, I don’t recall: I certainly wasn’t in the “adventure lifestyle” demographic it catered to. Inside that issue was a review of the book
Who Needs a Road?, originally published in the late 1960s and re-issued in 1999:
I was intrigued, so I ordered a copy of the book and voraciously wolfed it down when it arrived.
The book chronicles the around-the-world trip, in a Toyota Land Cruiser, of authors Harold Stephens and Al Podell: