Thursday, January 24, 2008

不去會死!

作者:石田裕輔
旅行時間:連續7年5個月
訪問國家數:87國
行進距離:94,494公里
爆胎次數:184次
旅費:台幣17萬;
強盜搶劫: 1次
墜入愛河次數:?次

  「既然降生到這世界上,就要好好看遍它,親眼找出世界第一。」

The author was just a regular clergyman, and it is because of this feeling of having to figure out what is #1 in the world by his own standards, that he set on this journey to travel around the world!!!
He feels that he has to travel the world by his own two feet, not just by plane or by bus, but his own two feet!!! So he went on this long journey riding his bicycle...
Met a lot of follow travellers along the way, seeing Chichen Itza, Torres Del Paine, travelling the silk road, Sahara Desert...camping along the highways and on the snow banks, got robbed in the desert, on the verge of dying from local diseases... lots of great stories...
The best people are the ppl he met in Africa or South America where ppl are more poor, who were treating him with all they had and gave him shelter, where as in the big cities....
The book will have been great if there were more reflections about each place he visited... but I really do appreciate the determination that he showed in being able to complete the trip through so many hardships and sickness...

Makes me want to travel again!!!

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