He and his wife and children journeyed from India to Hong Kong, Japan and Argentina before they settled down in an area of Brazil where the landscape resembles that in Szechwan province.
當初大陸變色，他和妻小從印度轉到香港暫居，然後搭輪船經日本往南美打天下，那時他方值壯年，正豪情萬丈。民國四十一年，先抵阿根廷的曼多灑；繼而往巴西一遊，發現了聖保羅附近摩詰山城的風景酷似四川的成都平原，樹木蒼鬱、河流環繞，簡直是人間勝境。