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Judi Lynn

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Sun Mar 13, 2022, 02:47 AM Mar 2022

Argentine family comes home after 22-year drive around the world

By AFP
Published March 12, 2022



Members of the Zapp family of Argentina open up a canvas that acts as a tent atop their 1928 Graham-Paige car near Gualeguaychu, Argentina, on March 10 - Copyright AFP Patrick BAERT

Liliana SAMUEL

An Argentine family is about to finish the trip of a lifetime: they have covered five continents in a 1928 jalopy on an adventure that began in 2000, while bringing into the world and raising four kids who are now adolescents.

The Zapp family — Herman and Candelaria and those children — have driven a total of 362,000 kilometers (225,000 miles) and have now stopped off in this town on the border with Uruguay before their scheduled arrival Sunday back where they started on January 25, 2000 at the Obelisk, a monument in downtown Buenos Aires.

“I have very mixed feelings. We are ending a dream, or fulfilling a dream,” Herman told AFP. “What will come now? Thousands of changes, thousands of options,” said the 53-year-old, who is already thinking of sailing around the world.

Candelaria, who was 29 when the trip began and is now 51, said her biggest and best discovery was the people encountered along the way.

“People are wonderful. Humanity is incredible,” said Candelaria.

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Argentine family comes home after 22-year drive around the world (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2022 OP
Book pls, then movie. Or movies. brush Mar 2022 #1
They have a book, it's called Catching A Dream, per the article. Biophilic Mar 2022 #4
Wow, that's amazing. Duppers Mar 2022 #2
22 years? Throck Mar 2022 #3

Duppers

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2. Wow, that's amazing.
Sun Mar 13, 2022, 05:19 AM
Mar 2022

I read a most entertaining, page-turning book decades ago called "Miles from Nowhere" about a young couple biking around the world. Their conclusions about people were much the same.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343994.Miles_from_Nowhere



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