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Travel From the Arctic Circle to Fin del Mundo
On the 6th of August 2023, our journey South started, with the rugged roadways that form the Dalton highway. Throughout the next 8 months we, like Richardson’s group crossed, range of mountains such as the Andes, traversed through jungles, and huge deserts such as the Atacama. We crossed through 16 nations appreciating their culture, and landscape while seeing the effect that the Pan American Highway has actually had on the residents. Our overall group included 21 travelers from around the globe who signed up with for numerous legs assisting the bus along the method.
We were warmly invited along the path and quickly discovered how renowned the bus was throughout the Americas. It was frequently described as “The Simpsons bus”, or connected with Hollywood motion pictures. Among our preferred experiences remained in Chile, when a passer by on the motor method, managed ahead of us, so he might photo us driving by. We later on discovered ourselves tagged on Instagram function on a bus fan club page in Chile.
We were lucky not to experience any significant break downs, unlike our trial run, nevertheless we did require to alter a couple of tires here and as an effect of leaving the bus parked up in Panama for a month our generator had actually worn away with the humidity and required to be changed.
Our core group of 4 made it from start to end up over 20,359 miles (32,764 kilometres) by land and a shipping path from Panama to Colombia. There were definitely lots of ups and downs along the method however thankfully no significant injuries or arguments!
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