travels with a friend in a "Rob Roy" canoe from Antwerp (Belgium) to Pontoise, just north of Paris.

two weeks' solo ramble in the mountains of Cévennes (south-central France) hiking and camping

honeymoon trip to an abandoned mining camp in Napa Valley

by ship from Europe to New York by train from New York to California

he was ill suffering for a long time

it was tuberculosis untreateddisease at that time

he traveled to find a climate that would be more beneficial for his health.

At the age 42 --1892

Under the wide and starry sky,Dig the grave and let me lie.Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me:Here he lies where he longed to be;Home is the sailor, home from sea,And the hunter home from the hill.

his 'Requiem', the piece he always had intended as his epitaph:

Stevenson's tomb on Mt. Vaea