My 5-Continent Midlife-Crisis Round-The-World Trip
This set of posts/letters home/panicked reports of wild animals/memoirs originally appeared on Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World in late 2003 and 2004.
To whet your appetite, here's the chart I compiled at the end of the various distances covered via various forms of transit... if you're not sure yet what a tuk-tuk or a travellator is, neither was I. To find out which one of them can easily get you killed, read on.
| Airplanes | 32964 miles |
| Rental cars | 2958 miles |
| Taxis | 295 miles |
| Buses | 271 miles |
| Trains | 240 miles |
| Subways | 40 miles |
| Mountain bike | 28 miles |
| Hitchhiking | 10 miles |
| Cruise ship | 10 miles |
| Monorails | 7 miles |
| Elevated train | 5 miles |
| Ferry boat | 3 miles |
| Suspended gondolas | 5 miles |
| Bum boat | 5 miles |
| Motor scooter | 2 miles (?) |
| Elevators | 1.5 miles |
| Funicular cable train | 1 mile |
| Kayak | 3/4 mile |
| Travellators | 3/4 mile |
| Tuk-tuk | 1/2 mile |
| Street luge | 1/2 mile |
| Chair lift | 1/2 mile |
| Swimming | 1/2 mile |
| Water taxis | 1/2 mile |
| Escalators | 1/4 mile |
| Running from baboon, screaming | 50 feet |
| Falling off of things, various | 30 feet |
| Ostrich, attempting to ride, stupidly | 4 feet |
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