History of Peru Quiz

In 1954 William Wallace recreated the KonTiki voyage. He assembled the raft in Ecuador, then transported it to Peru. The trip from Callao to Samoa took 4 months and has been described as "the greatest solo trip since Charles Lindbergh."

9 years later he returned to Peru to do it yet again. We were living there then, contacted him, and prepared dinner for him and his wife, Teddy. She never accompanied him on these voyages. He said that if she were lost then he couldn't go home. (He did have a parrot...'aargh..') I have a copy of the book he wrote about his first voyage, "The Gods Were Kind." In the acknowledgments he credits a number of Peruvian agencies as well as individuals of the Peruvian Navy, the Hotel Bolivar and the customs officials of Callao. He had christened this raft "Age Unlimited." (He was about 70 years old at this time.) 6 years later he disappeared on a solo voyage in the Atlantic. Life magazine featured him on the cover and wrote a 6-page story about his life.

OOPS....major error here. William's surname was Willis, not Wallace. At 82, my memory is unreliable at best. Check him out on Wikipedia.