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Argentine family comes home after 22-year drive around the world
- santiagobasulto 5y agoI'm from Argentina and it's the first time I hear about them. Crazy story!
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- grecy 5y agoI didn't personally meet them, but I've followed in their footsteps in many places around the world. Quite a few places I visited in Africa spoke fondly of them and their visit. Amazing family!
- bloodyplonker22 5y agoYou'd think that they'd at least show an image or map with the path they took and the cities they visited.
- anonporridge 5y agoI feel like way too much old world journalism doesn't value or prioritize the visualization of data. They waste paragraphs of words describing things that would be infinitely better communicated in a second as some kind of visual. Maybe this is just a holdover from the pre-computer days when making visualizations was hard?
- sen 5y agoWord-count = SEO, basically as simple as that.
- dmd 5y agohttps://imgur.com/TxrgcWb https://imgur.com/TxrgcWb
- carabiner 5y agoThere's a movie with a similar theme, Captain Fantastic. Great flick if you like indie films.
- hiharryhere 5y agoFound this map of their route... (reuploaded to imgur to save the little website I found it on from being slashdotted). https://imgur.com/TxrgcWb https://imgur.com/TxrgcWb
- thematrixturtle 5y agoWhoah, that's pretty hardcore. Across the length of Africa, through China and Tibet to India, etc. Even things like island hopping across Indonesia, which only occupy a few pixels on the map, are logistical nightmares.
- Nursie 5y agoThe main one I see there is they appear to have crossed the Darien Gap between Central and South America. Last time I checked this was not easy!
- thematrixturtle 5y agoI presume they took a ferry across the gap like everybody else, the actual Gap is effectively impassable for anything larger than two wheels and very dangerous to boot due to various narcos/militias operating in the area.
- Nursie 5y agoIs it simple for everyone else? When I was looking into going north from South America to Panama a few years ago, it seemed like there wasn't even any sort of regular ferry service, and if you wanted to move a vehicle you had to attempt to negotiate with cargo shipping companies. Perhaps things have changed :)
- thematrixturtle 5y agoYes, that is indeed the case. My vague understanding, though, is that negotiating passage by sea on a cargo ship is not particularly difficult, it's just expensive.
- polishdude20 5y agoAnyone know how they managed finances? 22 years on the road is amazing given the fact they gave birth and raised two kids along the way!
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- Barrin92 5y ago>Anyone know how they managed finances the article does "And some buy a copy of the book the Zapps have written about their adventure, entitled "Catching a Dream." They have sold about 100,000 copies and say this is their main source of revenue for all this traveling."
- contingencies 5y agoGetting a vehicle larger than a bicycle between India and China is a serious bureaucratic achievement.
- epgui 5y agoWow, and I thought my 26000km road trip zig-zagging through Canada and the US was extreme… This is a whole other level!
- elboru 5y agoThis guy from Uruguay is biking from Uruguay to Alaska. He’s in my city at the moment in northern Mexico. https://www.instagram.com/tabarealonso/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/tabarealonso/?hl=en
- thunderbong 5y agoIncredible! And they did it in a 1928 model Graham-Paige! From Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham-Paige https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham-Paige
- Semaphor 5y agoTangential, but what does "ls/nn/rsr/dw/bbk" at the end of the article mean? Considering the author is Liliana Samuel, I’m thinking that’s what ls stands for, but then who are the others? Co-authors, editors?
- matterhorn2000 5y agoYes. Initials of authors and contributors.
- ale42 5y ago<nerd-joke>they missed a space, they wanted to list the /nn/rsr/dw/bbk folder...</nerd-joke>
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- anonporridge 5y agoBy driving in the correct lane? There's nothing that technically requires the driver's side to be on either side to drive safely.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoI once saw someone take an old right hand drive Mini Cooper through a fast food drive through. That makes it hard to reach.
- kryptiskt 5y agoSweden used to drive on the left before 1967, yet nearly all cars had the driver to the left. Back then there were a lot of drivers who complained that the switch to driving on the right would be unsafe, they felt more comfortable away from the traffic. Presumably their passengers didn't share that opinion.
- mbg721 5y agoI'm sure it's just whatever you're used to, but when I imagine using my left hand to shift, it's like using it to write.
- adrianN 5y agoI assume they drive their car on whatever lane the country prefers? That is perfectly possible.
- pmontra 5y agoWith extra care when following somebody and attempting an overtake. Getting tickets or paying at toll stations would need some extra work but in their case the passenger would do it. That's all. You're not forbidden to drive a US car in the UK (Japan, India, Australia, etc.) or viceversa.
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- lurker616 5y agoCan anyone link their book? I couldn't find it on amazon or goodreads.
- ornornor 5y agoThat’s because this is some prime reporting and the book is actually called “Spark your Dream”: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1965649 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1965649
- juanci_to 5y agoI'm an argentine. My dad has been a fan of this family for more than ten years! I'll share this news with him For the last Father's Day, a gift we got for him was a video from Hernán Zapp sending regards to him. In the video he says to my dad to "keep on catching his dreams!" as my father loves to travel and have been wanting this lifestyle for his family for a long time, and he'll make it true in the following years. This family has even met Messi, that's kinda like a dream in itself for most people in my country. Edit: added more detail
- smcl 5y agoHow on earth did they finance it? I saw that they now have a book out, but it would take an impressive pitch and a hefty advance to last a whole 22 years so I'm guessing it's not that :)
- netsharc 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXn3mcdmpNk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXn3mcdmpNk this says people would help them along the way, e.g. if their car broke down. I guess it really helps when you have a car from the 1930s and a cool story. I could imagine, if they were that sort of people, they could roll up to a grocery store car park, wait for curious locals to talk to them, and then pretend not to have local currency to get groceries, and get 1 or 2 people to pay for their food. Edit: they go into detail about how they started the book on the road: https://youtu.be/UJafN4oxSqM https://youtu.be/UJafN4oxSqM
- aldebran 5y agoUnrelated to the news but related to the site- this is the worst cookie management UI I’ve seen so far. Took me a while to scroll through all on mobile. I feel like I saw more settings there than in an OS settings app.
- op00to 5y agoHow the hell did they find the time to make 4 kids while traveling in a car? The first few I guess it’s easy to slip away, but the rest?
- Cthulhu_ 5y ago"Making" a kid is probably the easiest and quickest part of having kids, lol.
- deepsun 5y agoI've heard there's a gene that's associated with higher desire to explore new places. And the highest frequency of that gene is among native South American population. They apparently went farther than anyone from Africa.
- elhesuu 5y agoYour comment is a tiny bit racist?
- beeboop 5y agoUnsubstantiated and probably misguided, yes. Racist, probably not. Insensitive - probably.
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- deepsun 5y agoI just answered above.
- deepsun 5y agoWhat? Where? The least I could think of myself as a racist. UPDATE: I think I see your point. We have many interesting genes, myself included, none of them defines us as a person. I think it's irrelevant. But in my comment I expressed a connection between a population statistical gene expression and a particular family. That is a tiny bit racist, agree. :(