[jrherreid]

Kon-Tiki was one of my favorite books as a boy. Who wouldn't want to spend three months on a raft and wrestle sharks?

Totally awesome.

[billorites]

Thor Heyerdahl certainly captured my attention as a (manly) male born in 1955.

I wonder if any freepers read stories written by Richard Halliburton.

"The Flying Carpet" was a favorite of mine.

[snopercod]

A man of a bygone era where theories were to be proven, and life was to be lived first hand, not vicariously sitting in a darkened room watching TV.

He will be remembered along with Marco Polo, Columbus, DeSoto, Lindbergh, Lewis & Clark, Dick and Jeanna Yeager and all the others.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors stood alone against the men of their time.

--Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

May he have a safe voyage and fair winds.

[to the core]

Kon-Tiki was my favorite as a child. Amazing story.

[JulieRNR21]

As a young girl I read & loved all his books. The great adventurer is now on his final journey to his eternal home.

[Travis McGee]

He was a giant!

[texlok]

He was what you'd call a man's man. People told him something he believed was impossible, he'd risk his life to prove them wrong. You don't find too many people these days who are like that. To think, about 10 years or so before his first "little" journey, he was deathly afraid of the water (until he fell into a raging river and had to swim his way out of it).