In 2000, Herman and Candelaria Zapp set out on a 16-month trip from their home in Argentina to backpack around Alaska. But that trip has turned into a round-the-world saga spanning 15 years that would leave the most hardened vagabond green with envy. The couple left their comfortable life in Buenos Aires behind, and became adventurers extraordinaire. And their mode of transportation has been as unconventional as their lifestyle is enviable—a 1928 Graham-Paige Model 610. The 87-year-old vintage car, with a top speed of 35 miles per hour, looks like it came straight out of a 1930s Hollywood gangster movie, and it doubles as a home for Herman, Candelaria, and their four children.
And now, 4 children, 5 continents, 50 countries, and quarter of a million miles – the distance to the Moon – later, the Zapp family are still exploring. As well as visiting Alaska, the continental United States, and all over their native South America, they have been to Canada, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Malaysia, Tibet, India, Ethiopia, Egypt, and South Africa. They’ve rafted down the Amazon, navigated their way across the Serengeti and meandered through the backroads of South Asia all the way to the snow-covered base of Mount Everest. They’ve broken bread with the Aborigines of Australia, evaded bandits and camped under the stars, and done it all without ever having a schedule or a timetable.
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