Here is the portrait of this complicated man that emerged from five months of research into his life: He was constantly on the move - his famous flight from New York to Paris at age 25 was just his first trans-oceanic trip. His last would come just eight days before his death, when he flew from New York, where he was being treated for lymphoma, to Hawaii, where he had already chosen and measured his burial plot.

Lindbergh was a maniacal list maker and planner. And he was not easily deterred from his chosen course. He bucked the opinions of nearly everyone when he decided to fly solo to Paris in a single-engine plane. It was a suicide mission, they said. But because of his careful preparation, he pulled it off - with gas to spare.

Lindbergh's determination never left him. When his wife objected to having more children - altogether they had six - Lindbergh found an unconventional way around that too: he secretly took three lovers in Europe, and went on to father seven children outside his marriage.

A stubborn, secretive man, a perfectionist, a man constantly in motion: it adds up to a driven loner, a rather cold individual who was difficult to get to know. But it also adds up to a pioneer, a path breaker, an explorer - a true maverick.

As you might imagine, following the tracks of a wanderer with four families leads you to some unusual places. But one place my crew and I visited stands out as truly emblematic of the man we were profiling. It is a tiny community of just a few hundred called Kipahulu on the far eastern end of Hawaii's Maui island. In 1968 Lindbergh and his wife built a vacation home there. Not long after Lindbergh decided the two would be buried here.

It's easy to see why Lindbergh loved this place. Kipahulu is lush, tropical and wind-blown - the trade winds can road ashore for days on end. It is also extremely remote. It is a three-hour drive from the nearest airport.

True to form, Lindbergh chose his own burial site and even measured his own grave - just feet from the ocean. A man who could have had a funeral in Manhattan, attended by the most vaunted dignitaries of the time, instead chose to die and be buried in this remote place, with only family and local friends in attendance. Perhaps not surprisingly his wife later chose to be buried elsewhere. A Lone Eagle until the end, Charles Lindbergh lies on America's farthest edge, alone.