Around the World in 10 Years: 15 years later we are still en route
“I’ll never forget that monday when I put the barrel of a gun to my head and fired until I was out of bullets, without stopping to think of what I was doing so I wouldn’t have a chance to change my mind. It was my resignation to a future which I already knew, a farewell to a secure job, an adieu to a brillant career in advertising, the microcosm where I had lived for the last twelve long years.
It was ten minutes after ten in the morning an my last words were, more or less ‘keep the corpse, I’m leaving.’ My body collapsed and I walked out the door.”
AROUND THE WORLD IN 10 YEARS: THE BOOK OF INDEPENDENCE.
- ‘Around the World in 10 Years: The Book of Independence’ (ISBN 13 978-1482769951) is available at Kindle and Amazon.com.
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- The road to the Arctic 2: How to avoid being eaten by a bear.
- The road to the Arctic 10: Guide to the end of the Panamerican Road (Dalton Hwy.) in North America.
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Pablo Rey (Buenos Aires) and Anna Callau (Barcelona) also known as #viajeros4x4x4, have been overlanding the world non stop since 2000 on a 4WD Delica van. They mastered the art of solving problems (breakdowns and police harassment, between them) in far away places, while enjoying their nomadic lifestyle.
They’ve been 3 years driving through Middle East and Africa, between Cairo and Cape Town; 7 years all around South America, and 7 years going to every corner of Central and North America. They crossed the Southern Atlantic Ocean in a fishing vessel, descended an Amazon river in a 6 log wooden raft, and walked with a swiss knife between elephants in wild Africa. On the last two years they started to travel by foot (Pyrenees mountains coast to coast, two months) and motorbike (Asia), with the smallest lugagge possible.
Pablo has written three books in Spanish (one translated in English), many articles to magazines like Overland Journal and Lonely Planet and both are in the short list of the most respected latino overlanders.
¿When will the journey end? It doesn’t end, the journey is life itself.
