A post-Norway post
If you have followed my armchair travels in Japan and Norway this year, you might be getting hungry for your own next journey.
May I suggest India?
I can’t think of anyone better to lead an Indian expedition than Paul Saltzman, whom I have known 50 years.
I hired Paul in the mid-1970s to be the cinematographer on a film, which I directed for the National Film Board of Canada, about Canada‘s role in international development.
I hired Paul to travel with me to Lesotho, a mountainous, southern African kingdom, where we spent weeks making our film.
We struck up a friendship that has lasted 50 years.
Paul went on to become a an acclaimed independent filmmaker, responsible for two major documentaries.
I can vouch for Paul’s colorful life stories… They are all true. Including the one he tells about his daughter finding a box of color negatives on a closet shelf in their home… It turns out that Paul had been with the Beatles in India when they were hanging out with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in Rishikesh, India, and his daughter found the long-forgotten negatives.
Paul turned his trove of Beatles photos into a magnificent leather-bound book, which he sold.
Paul’s next challenge?
He’s leading a 16-day excursion to India and asked if I would please share his pitch with my Substack readers… because if you’ve been crazy enough to read my stories, perhaps you’re crazy enough to join Paul to take one of his expeditions.
Paul cut his teeth on adventure when he was 17… aboard a Canadian medical ship, The C.D. Howe, bound for the Arctic. Paul was the darkroom specialist, developing X-rays of Innuit in need of medical attention for tuberculosis. Ever since, he’s had Wanderlust.
You can find details about his Safari to India and Bhutan here… (remember that you can enlarge ANY image you see in my Substack emails, including this one, to make it easier to read).
Here’s a shot of the Beatles, which Paul took, just in case you thought I was making this up.
If you’d like to reach Paul with questions about this trip, please email him directly at
That includes this unpaid public service announcement… And also ends my series from Norway.
I have no travel plans as of now for my next adventure… But you are subscribed via Substack to receive whatever I write.
Thanks for accompanying me as I floated along the coast of Norway these past 16 days. Hope you enjoyed the journey.
More when it happens again…
Jim