Travels with the Real Oz: Way Back WhenIn the spring of 1959, Oz West, a recent college graduate in civil engineering, turned down severaljob interviews and decided instead to buy a ticket to Hawaii to help them celebrate statehood. Little did he know that simple trip would become a six year enterprise, visiting 44 countries in the Far East, Australia, Southeast Asia, the Near East, Japan, Korea, and Europe, traveling over 60,000 miles before returning to the States, living with the