The next event of note, he rightly described as an automotive adventure, and recounted a hair-raising journey through the Rocky Mountains in his grandfather’s Model T Ford. The roads, at best, were paved with sand, and generally little more than winding deer trails above a sheer abyss. Then followed equally challenging treks across Nevada deserts (where water went to the radiator and the tires blew out every twenty miles) before finally arriving in San Diego where his father served in the United States Navy aboard a destroyer and photographs show Ron fully at home on the decks.
Although the story of
What amounted to the next of those adventures came in 1927 with the first of two Pacific voyages to Asia. Again, much has been said of Ron’s Asian journeys: how he made his way to the island of Guam where his father served at the United States refueling station; how from Guam he braved typhoons aboard a working schooner to finally land on the China coast; how he then made his way inland to finally venture deep into forbidden Buddhist lamaseries, and how the whole of it figured into the larger quest from whence came Dianetics and Scientology. What is not generally known, however, and is particularly relevant here, are the incidental details.
For example, among those encountered through the course of his second Asian venture (commencing in 1928, and following a short stint with Montana’s 163rd National Guard), was a Major Ian Macbean of the British Secret Service. Precisely why this Macbean would take a seventeen-year-old
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