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Related: About this forumArgentine family comes home after 22-year drive around the world
By AFP
Published March 12, 2022
Members of the Zapp family of Argentina open up a canvas that acts as a tent atop their 1928 Graham-Paige car near Gualeguaychu, Argentina, on March 10 - Copyright AFP Patrick BAERT
Liliana SAMUEL
An Argentine family is about to finish the trip of a lifetime: they have covered five continents in a 1928 jalopy on an adventure that began in 2000, while bringing into the world and raising four kids who are now adolescents.
The Zapp family Herman and Candelaria and those children have driven a total of 362,000 kilometers (225,000 miles) and have now stopped off in this town on the border with Uruguay before their scheduled arrival Sunday back where they started on January 25, 2000 at the Obelisk, a monument in downtown Buenos Aires.
I have very mixed feelings. We are ending a dream, or fulfilling a dream, Herman told AFP. What will come now? Thousands of changes, thousands of options, said the 53-year-old, who is already thinking of sailing around the world.
Candelaria, who was 29 when the trip began and is now 51, said her biggest and best discovery was the people encountered along the way.
People are wonderful. Humanity is incredible, said Candelaria.
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brush
(53,845 posts)Biophilic
(3,691 posts)Probably be pretty good reading.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)I read a most entertaining, page-turning book decades ago called "Miles from Nowhere" about a young couple biking around the world. Their conclusions about people were much the same.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343994.Miles_from_Nowhere
Throck
(2,520 posts)Why didn't the husband stop for directions?