In 1960, at the height of the Cold War, Vernon Johnson decided to do his part for world peace. Believing it could be achieved by shaking hands and singing with strangers, he packed his family -his wife Anne, and their eight children -- two to seventeen -- into a ramshackle Santa Barbara city bus for a trip around the world. The journey took two years, and the bus broke down, the kids got sick and they were always broke -- but they had a lifetime of adventures, too, including * A two-week Roman romp with Anita Ekberg * Losing the two-year-old in Paris on Bastille Day * Wintering in Sweden, with both parents in emergency surgery * Meeting Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow Greeted at their San Francisco homecoming as returning heroes and goodwill ambassadors, Dad was proved right!