It doesn't really matter too much who sailed which way in the ancient world.

But the Kon Tiki expedition lifted people's hearts at a time they needed lifting, and gave a sense that the world was still young and full of wonders, and things could be done that nobody thought could be done, and without high technology.

The thing that always sticks in my mind is how, when they were building the raft, one lot of experts were saying it'd never work because the balsa wood was too soft, and the other lot were saying it wouldn't work because the grass cables weren't strong enough.

And in fact the two weaknesses worked together - the balsa wood was soft enough so it didn't break the cables, and the cables were soft enough so the didn't slice though the logs, and it stayed afloat across the Pacific. And that is a parable for a lot of other things in this life.

I'm sure there's at least one Kon-Tiki song, and probably a few more - more especially up in Norway or Sweden. Hell, they had at least one guitar player on board, as has been pointed out!