Wherever the wind took him Lin, who loves to draw from nature, began traveling overseas in the 1970s. He went to Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, Hawaii, the United States, Switzerland and elsewhere.
四海任我行喜愛寫生的林玉山，在民國六十年之後，足跡由國內踏出海外，泰國、越南、尼泊爾、夏威夷、美國、瑞士等等。