Gunther, Christine and Otto - An Epic Journey

[mongers]

If you like travelling off the beaten track, then this is well worth a read, an interesting photo essay:

Gunther, Christine and Otto

How a man met a woman and they set off on an epic journey across six continents in one amazing unbreakable car:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8703/index.html

[Liep]

Nice journey.

[CountDeMoney]

Nice tits.

[Syt]

My French-Canuck coworker says travelling like this would be her dream.

[Eddie Teach]

Sleeping in your van while waiting for days at customs checkpoints, that's the life.

[mongers]

Sleeping in your van while waiting for days at customs checkpoints, that's the life.

Weird you should focus on one small part of the experience and blow it out of all proportion. 

It's like saying you and I post a lot on Languish, therefore our lives aren't ....

Ah, Ok.   

[Eddie Teach]

Eh, he slept in his van every night. That's a rather major part of the experience.

It's neat to read about and see pictures and stuff, but I don't envy him one bit.

[Zanza]

My French-Canuck coworker says travelling like this would be her dream.

I would love to do that for a couple of months.

[Admiral Yi]

I would love to do that for a couple of months.

Have you ever felt a longing to spend time at a dude ranch?

[Barrister]

I was kind of put off by how the woman, on the start of her journies, promptly put her son in a boarding school.

[sbr]

I was kind of put off by how the woman, on the start of her journies, promptly put her son in a boarding school.

Yeah that bothered me too, other than that it was a good read.

It sounds like a great adventure, but I could never travel like that though.

[Barrister]

Mind you the fact he got to drive his car to North Korea was pretty bad ass.

[lustindarkness]

I would have read it if it had been a Toyota Land Cruiser. 

[mongers]

I would have read it if it had been a Toyota Land Cruiser. 

There is someone out there whose done it in a Land-cruiser as a race, in that they did all* of the world's countries in around 4-5 years, I think they were sponsored by Toyota as well. 

But really not the same sort of motivation or range of experiences as this guy and his wife had.

[Syt]

Eh, he slept in his van every night. That's a rather major part of the experience.

It's neat to read about and see pictures and stuff, but I don't envy him one bit.

I get the romantic appeal of just driving through the African wild as they did in the beginning, or travelling through all those countries and just roughing it; but I think I prefer a proper bed and sanitary facilities myself these days. Never been a fan of camping.