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Photo by George Guille, It's going to be a long 300km... Bolivian Amazon

I haven't been everywhere...
but it's on my list!


Photo by George Guille
It's going to be a long 300km...
Bolivian Amazon



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Thumbs up Tractor Travel.
I've hitched lifts on local tractors.

I've meet a group travelling across Australia on Chamberland Tractors, think they were doing around 20km/h


But

BBC NEWS | Africa | Tractor woman on African rescues

Accross Africa to the South Pole ? .. Average speed 5km/h ... Tremendous!
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website of the dutch girl.

tractortractor.org : Manon Ossevoort - Op de tractor naar de Zuidpool en terug?
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An interesting choice to ride!
There was a guy who rode a riding lawnmower from, I believe, the state of Kansas in the U.S. to Texas as his truck broke down and it was the only transportation he had. I guess he would be easy to find if he rode in the grass. He was in his seventies.
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Roadmovies
The lawnmower:
'The Straight Story' a moving picture by David Lynch based on a true story.

Another interesting choice of transport:
A Segway! 10 MPH }{ Segway roadtrip across America }{ A Documentary Film
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Here's another tractor journey
http://www.claas.com/group/generator...ang=en_UK.html

I also remember (but can't find a link to) a British Guy Driving an old tractor (Massey Ferguson 35?) from the UK to Russia a couple of years ago.

It's all getting too common, so I have stopped prepping my old David Brown 950 tractor, and stuck it back in the barn. another unique idea thwarted !
Now where did I put my Pogo-stick.....
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Ahh, but is it a motorised pogo stick?
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