Monday, 20 August 2012

amazing jouneys

different ways... different ways of travelling

.. by rabbit-proof fence:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB-jkydqADg

The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments. The removals occurred in the period between approximately 1869[1] and 1969,[2][3] although in some places children were still being taken until the 1970s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generation

File:Rabbit proof fence map showing route.PNG

by motorbike:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6jz_b80V5g

The Motorcycle Diaries is a memoir that traces the early travels of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, then a 23-year-old medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist. Leaving Buenos Aires, Argentina, in January 1952 on the back of a sputtering single cylinder 1939 Norton 500cc dubbed La Poderosa ("The Mighty One"), they desired to explore the South America they only knew from books.[1] During the formative odyssey Guevara is transformed by witnessing the social injustices of exploited mine workers, persecuted communists, ostracized lepers, and the tattered descendants of a once-great Incan civilization. By journey's end they travel for a symbolic nine months by motorcycle, steamship, raft, horse, bus, and hitchhiking, covering more than 8,000 kilometres (5,000 mi) across places such as the Andes, Atacama Desert, and the Amazon River Basin. The book ends with a declaration by Guevara, born into an upper-middle-class family, displaying his willingness to fight and die for the cause of the poor, and his dream of seeing a united Latin America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_diaries

File:Che Guevara-Granado - Mapa 1er viaje - 1952.jpg

or by spacecraft:



and solve a problem whilst you're at it:



Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the service module upon which the Command Module depended. Despite great hardship caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of potable water, and the critical need to jury-rig the carbon dioxide removal system, the crew returned safely to Earth on April 17.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13

File:Direct Abort Trajectory - Lunar Landing Symposium, MSC Jun66.jpg

Thanks to Speak Out (Pre-Intermediate) from Pearson for this idea
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