Description: Discover Aloha Wanderwell through photos, books, films and her original travel diary. Follow Aloha's daring drive around the world in a Ford Model-T.
ALOHA WANDERWELL
Aloha Wanderwell was a pioneer, author, explorer, travel lecturer, Queen of Adventure, filmmaker, aviatrix, called a female Indiana Jones. She visited places no western man or woman had seen before. She was a figure of controversy, self-invention and marketing. The romance that informs her legend is both real and contrived.
Aloha was born on October 13, 1906. Inspired by the fantastic tales she read in her father’s beloved collection of boyhood books, she dreamed of travel, adventure, and intrigue in far-flung corners of the globe. In 1922, when she was 16, she embarked in a Model T Ford on an ambitious around-the–world expedition led by Captain Walter Wanderwell…