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- Description: Louis Michael Figueroa embarked on several coast-to-coast journeys to support various charitable causes
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
New Jersey Activist Walks Across the Country Again: Louis Figueroa traverses the nation for a cause.
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- Description: On April 25, 2001, Alberto Fiorin, Aldo Maroso, and eight other friends set off from Venice on bicycles headed for Beijing. The Silk Road required 96 days of effort, covering a total of 12,000 kilometers across Europe and Asia
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1960-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Silk Road, Via della seta, Route de la soie
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Maroso A., Fiorin A., Strade d’Oriente : in bicicletta da Venezia a Pechino, Ediciclo editore, 2003.
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- Description: In 2008, Adrian Flanagan completed a round-the-world boat trip, circumnavigating the globe vertically: 31'000 miles in 405 days, 18 hours, and 50 minutes
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Boat, ship, Barca, nave, Bateau
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Flanagan
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4685015
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- Description: In 1958, Colin Fletcher, an Englishman, walked along the eastern coast of California. From this experience, he wrote the book The Thousand-Mile Summer. Among the author's most acclaimed publications is The Complete Walker
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1922-2007
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Fletcher
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5145089
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Fletcher, Colin. 1964. The thousand mile summer in desert and high sierra. Berkeley, Calif: Howell-North Books.. Fletcher, Colin, C. L. Rawlins, and Colin Fletcher. 2002. The complete walker IV. New York: Knopf.
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- Description: Steve Fonyo was a Canadian amputee runner known for his “Journey for Lives” across Canada between 1984 and 1985. Starting in St. John’s, he completed the coast-to-coast run in approximately 425 days, covering 7,924 km (4,922 miles) and raising over CAD 14 million for cancer research. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1985, later revoked in 2010
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Canada
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1965-2022
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Canada
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fonyo
- Multimedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_(2015_film)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7612565
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- Description: Terry Fox was a Canadian athlete known for his Marathon of Hope. His goal was to cross Canada from coast to coast, raising funds for cancer research. Terry embarked on this journey with a prosthetic right leg, following an amputation due to cancer. He had to stop his run after 143 days and 5'280 km when cancerous tumors were found in his lungs. What initially seemed like a sporting and personal failure turned into a major act of solidarity: his foundation has raised over 500 million dollars in twenty years
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Terry Fox
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Canada
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1958-1981
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Internet: http://www.terryfox.org
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q295053
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- Description: In Vespa to the Ends of the Earth: that's the destination for a group of riders, diverse in age and origin, each on their own Vespa. They travel across Patagonia to Tierra del Fuego: an adventure that starts with twenty-three Vespas stacked in a container shipped across the Atlantic and unfolds through vast landscapes, wild animals, and unexpected incidents along the infamous Ruta 40, Argentina's longest and most spectacular road, known for its unpredictable weather and fearsome dirt tracks, now mostly replaced by asphalt. Lorenzo Franchini brings us a tale that dreams up all Vespa enthusiasts and others, conveying that strong sense of precariousness and freedom typical of an on-the-road journey, spiced up, why not, with a bit of recklessness. Despite the difficulties, those who were just nicknames on a Vespa forum before the departure become great friends. Accompanied by unforgettable skies, tumbles in the dust, makeshift camps, and roadside pasta, the Vespaonline riders cover nearly 5,000 km to reach Ushuaia, the "Southern Cape" of the world. With that slight bitterness felt when the journey is nearing its end, the author realizes that the finish line is not the end, but a new starting point to face everyday life, which often can have "turns" more challenging than those on a Patagonian route
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Lorenzo205
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1963-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Vespa
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Internet: http://www.doveilmondofinisce.tk
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Dove il Mondo Finisce, 2019, Alpine Studio Ed.
Sur une Vespa “Où le Monde se Termine”, c'est ici qu'un groupe de cavaliers, d'âges et d'origines différents, chevauchant chacun leur propre tête de Vespa. Ils parcourent toute la Patagonie jusqu'à la Terre de Feu: une aventure qui commence avec vingt-trois Vespas empilées dans un conteneur expédié à travers l'Atlantique et serpente à travers des paysages infinis, des animaux sauvages et des accidents inattendus le long de la tristement célèbre Ruta 40, la plus longue et la plus spectaculaire route argentine, célèbre pour sa météo imprévisible et son terrible chemin de terre, aujourd'hui remplacé par de l'asphalte.
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- Description: Gregory W. Frazier is an American adventure motorcyclist, author, journalist, film producer and photographer from Montana, of Crow Native American heritage. Described as "America's #1 extreme motorcycle adventurer," he has circumnavigated the globe six times by motorcycle, logging over 1,600,000 km (1,000,000 miles). His fifth circumnavigation (2005) was completed with a Parkinson's patient, Donna-Ray Polk, riding pillion over 48,280 km (30,000 miles) in 14 months. His adventures have included being shot at by rebels, jailed by authorities, bitten by snakes, and run over by bulls in Pamplona. He has ridden to the geographical extremities of the earth: Deadhorse, Alaska; Ushuaia, Argentina; North Cape, Norway; Cape Agulhas, South Africa; and Bluff, New Zealand
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Sun Chaser
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/gregfrazier/index.php
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Frazier, Gregory W. Motorcycle Adventurer: Carl Stearns Clancy: First Motorcyclist to Ride Around the World 1912–1913. 2010.
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- Description: Kanichi Fujiwara is a Japanese long-distance motorcyclist and writer. Between May 1987 and August 1999 he travelled across several continents on small motorcycles including a Honda Super Cub, a 50 cc Honda Motra and a Honda Dio scooter. Between March 2004 and May 2008 he completed a 50,552 km (31,412 miles) circumnavigation of the world on a Yamaha Passol electric scooter across 44 countries, on a route including Australia (Sydney to Perth), Thailand, India to Lisbon, South Africa to Kenya, and the United States (New York to San Francisco). The Yamaha Passol weighed 45 kg, had a top speed of 30 km/h and a range of 20 km per charge; with six batteries the range reached 100 km. The journey is considered possibly the first global circumnavigation by electric two-wheeler. Between April 2009 and November 2013 he rode 100,000 km across Japan's major highways on a 50 cc Honda Cub
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Japan, Giappone, Japon
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Moped, Motorino, Cyclomoteur
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://kanichi.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15276096
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About us
Museum of Travel and Tourism is a virtual museum dedicated to travel and tourism, founded in 2016. It began as a research platform focused on the biographies of women and men travelers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and has gradually expanded to include contemporary journeys.