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- Description: Journey of an Australian Family in a Motorhome
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Australia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://johnahern.co/
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: John Ahern, On the road with kids, Paperback, 2014
Have you ever been at work or in a meeting and had an overwhelming desire to escape, just get up and run away? This happened to John Ahern in the inconvenient setting of a Board meeting of one of the nation’s largest companies. He may have had it all: a high-flying job, big house, loving wife and two great kids, but it hit him that if this was success why did he sense he was failing as a husband and father?
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- Description: Olabisi Ajala was a Nigerian journalist, travel writer, actor and adventurer. After studying pre-medicine at the University of Chicago and embarking on a 2,280-mile bicycle tour from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1952 - during which he lectured on Africa in traditional Nigerian dress - he was deported from the United States to the United Kingdom, where he conceived his world tour. On 27 April 1957, aged 26, he departed London on a Vespa scooter on a journey he named "This Safari", intending to cover 40 countries. Over six years he visited 87 countries across Asia, Africa, Oceania and Europe, meeting world leaders including Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nikita Khrushchev, the Shah of Iran, Golda Meir and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. His most dramatic moment came at the Mandelbaum Gate between Jordan and Israel, where Jordanian guards fired at him as he accelerated through the crossing, a bullet bursting his rear tyre. He financed the journey by selling travel writing to newspapers and magazines across West Africa. He returned to Nigeria, where he became a celebrated socialite and was immortalised in the 1972 album Board Members by jùjú musician Ebenezer Obey - the chorus "Ajala travel all over the world" made his name synonymous with wanderlust in Nigerian culture. Despite his fame, he died in poverty in Lagos on 2 February 1999. His memoir An African Abroad was published in 1963 and republished in 2022
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Ajala the Traveller, Travel Ajala
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Nigeria
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1934-1999
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Vespa
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olabisi_Ajala
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96187854
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Ajala, Olabisi. An African Abroad. London: Jarrolds, 1963.
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- Description: Alexis Alford, also known as Lexie Limitless, is a traveler renowned for completing several remarkable feats. She holds the record as the youngest person to visit all 196 sovereign countries in the world, an achievement accomplished at the age of 21. In 2023-2024, she undertook another significant challenge: a journey around the world in a fully electric vehicle, a Ford Explorer. This trip, called "Charge Around The Globe," covered over 30'000 kilometers, crossing 27 countries and six continents. The endeavor was inspired by Aloha Wanderwell, who a century ago completed a similar world tour with a Ford Model T, and showcased both the potential and limitations of electric mobility
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Lexie Limitless
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1998-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: http://www.lexielimitless.com
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/LexieLimitless
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87204166
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- Description: Simon Allix is a French reporter who set out to travel around the world aboard the Queen Elizabeth. In 2012, during the 107-day journey, he produced a series of documentaries that were broadcast on the Voyage channel
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- 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: http://www.simonallix.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22917129
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- Description: Niels Andersen (born 1934, Denmark) and Svend Pedersen (born 1936, Denmark) were a Danish civil engineer and a clerk from Braaby, Denmark. Between 21 May and approximately 8 October 1953 they completed a round-the-world journey on Danish motorcycles, covering Europe (Denmark, Germany, Yugoslavia, Greece), Asia (Turkey, Persia, Pakistan, India, then by ship to Japan), and North America (by ship to San Francisco, then by motorcycle to New York), returning by ship to Denmark. The journey was undertaken to demonstrate the reliability of Danish motorcycles
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Denmark, Danimarca, Danemark
- 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://berndtesch.de
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- Description: World Tour in 11 Months by the Andrus Family
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Sixintheworld
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: http://www.sixintheworld.com (Content discontinued)
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- Description: Marcello Anglana, from Lecce, set off on his Honda Gold Wing 1500, covering 34'000 km with a budget of 10'000 euros, crossing five continents in 83 days
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Gold-wing
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- 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.gold-wing.it
- Multimedia: https://www.motociclismo.it/una-honda-gold-wing-come-compagna-di-viaggio-moto-53785
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Marcello Anglana, Italia-Giappone e ritorno. 34.000 km in moto in due mesi, Edizioni Antilia sas; 1° edizione (11 marzo 2012)
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- Description: Colin Angus is a Canadian adventurer and author, the first person to complete a self-propelled circumnavigation of the globe, using exclusively human power - walking and cycling on land, rowing on water - completed in May 2006. As part of the circumnavigation, Angus and his then fiancée Julie Wafaei made the first rowboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from mainland Europe to mainland North America. Among his other expeditions: the first descent of the Yenisei River; a complete descent of the Amazon River from source to sea (1999); and a 7,000 km (4,350 miles) journey from Scotland to Syria by rowboat and bicycle (2008)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Canada
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://angusadventures.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1108322
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Angus, Colin. Beyond the Horizon. 2007. Angus, Colin; Angus, Julie. Rowed Trip: From Scotland to Syria by Oar. 2009.
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- Description: Olivier and Hervé Archambeau, together with Denis Gittard, embarked on a world tour in 1990 and 1991, tracing the steps of the first geographical photographers. They endeavored to rediscover locations captured in the autochromes of the 1920s, utilizing advanced Earth observation techniques, including Spot satellites and an ULM for aerial photography. Over the course of 613 days, they covered 157'000 kilometers, consuming 23'000 liters of diesel, with 4'200 hours behind the wheel and a range of 3'500 kilometers. The book is a travelogue of this 160'000-kilometer journey
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3350761
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Archambeau Olivier, Archambeau Hervé. 2002. 600 jours de route, une aventure géographique. Paris: EGF.