Idris Galcia Aloha Hall (Wanderwell) b. 13 October 1906

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13 October 1906 birth: Winnipeg, Canada

1925 marriage: Riverside (California), USA, ♂ Valerian Jan Walter Pieczynski (Wanderwell) [Pieczynski] b. 1893 d. December 1932

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Aloha Wanderwell (born Idris Hall; 13 October 1906 – 4 June 1996) was a Canadian-born internationalist, adventurer and filmmaker. While still a teenager, she joined an expedition to travel across the world by Ford Model T, driving through 43 countries in the 1920s. She was billed as "The World's Most Traveled Girl".

She married her travelling companion, Walter Wanderwell, and they had two children and continued to travel the world, recording their journeys on film. While stranded in Brazil, she lived among the Bororo people and recorded the earliest film documentation of them. In 1932, her husband was murdered on a yacht in Long Beach, California. Aloha remarried and continued her travels, ultimately visiting over 80 countries.

Aloha Wanderwell was born Idris Galcia Hall on October 13, 1906 in Winnipeg, the daughter of British Army reservist Herbert Hall and Margaret Headley Hall. After her father was killed in action at Ypres in June 1917, her mother moved Idris and her younger sister to Europe. As the Great War drew to a close, Idris was enrolled in a convent school in France.

• http://www.alohawanderwell.com/

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