Post #16279 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Dec 13, 2002 11:35 AM

I just got this, I am so thrilled that Thor got to see my book before he kicked the bucket, and that we have friends in the academic world:

Hi Sven!

To introduce myself...I'm a professional archaeologist who was Thor
Heyerdahl's right-hand man over the last six years until his death in
April. (I'll be continuing some of his work.) I'm also a big Tiki fan I
liked your Tiki book...I showed Thor the bits you had about him in there.
I read Kon-Tiki and Aku-Aku as a kid growing up in Southern California and
then my parents took me to Hawaii many times. I couldn't imagine then
that years later I would be working with Mighty Thor himself.

I saw the picture on your web-site with your "tiki-shrine" complete with
Kon-Tiki poster and model. Good stuff! It would be fun to meet you
sometime and talk tiki and urban archaeology. I'll be down in So. Cal.
Dec. 18th-1 Jan. and also maybe later in the spring.

aloha!

• Don