Around The World In 80 Days...The Slow Way
Earlier this week, Mark Schatzeker from Conde Nast embarked in an 80 day journey taking only the slow roads.
The conditions of this trip are as follows: I cannot take a plane or helicopter, I cannot travel more than 100 miles per hour, and I must complete the journey-travel west out of New York and arrive from the east-in precisely 80 days. The intention is to rediscover "slow travel," of the way humans moved across vast distances back when Jules Verne wrote his famous book about Phileas Fog and before commercial airliners painted their lines across the skies.
He will be doing this trip on Conde Nast’s coin so he won’t exactly be bootstrapping it. His first leg takes him from New York to LA retracing Jack Kerouac’s route across America from his 1950’s novel On the Road, which is based on Kerouac's spontaneous road trips with friends across mid-America over 7 years, except instead of hiking and busing it like the author did, Schatzeker will be driving a brand new Mercedes. From the West Coast he will cruise across the Pacific Ocean.
Read the post from his first day on the road here and sign up for daily feeds to receive updates on his whereabouts for the next 78 days. This is sure to be a sweet, unpredictable journey! Also, for an uncensored version of Kerouac's novel keep an eye out for a publication from Penguin at the end of 2007.
This article was posted by Veronica Montero
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