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Or wait until winter and attempt the drive across.
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Shores of the Berring straight, a ferry ride to Alaska.
Is there a ferry from Russia to USA?
If you were on the American continent, you could probably drive from the North Pole to Tierra del Fuego not far from Antartica
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There are mutterings about bridging the Berring Strait. Sounds a bit far-fetched to me but I was watching some program about the engineering involved, with each bridge tower being built like an unside-down icebreaker to stop the iceflows from pulling it down in winter.
Imagine that. You'd be able to drive from the Cape of Good Hope to Cape Horn. That's got to be the thick end of 40,000 miles.
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I saw that on Discovery recently. Amazing if they ever do it.
If you wait till the next ice age, you might be able to circumnavigate the globe in an SUV
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Yes, this is possible but some of the middle bit is very sticky so people end up using alternatives. I've got a friend who set off from NY and kept heading south in his Jeep Grand Cherokee until we met up in Chiloe and onto Ushuaia - we took the ferry down to Puerto Natales but you could drive it.
Tim Cahill did a good book on the subject, Road Fever.
-- Lee .. A festivus for the rest of us.
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I know a guy who did it on a BMW F650.
Tim Cahill, plays for Everton?
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Maybe not the greatest distance travelled, but an account of a trip from Oakland, California to Argentina in a 23-year-old VW Dasher van, running on used cooking oil most of the time. Husband, wife & small child travelled from November 2003 to April 2004. Final posting summarised the stats as follows:
"I did some calculations for our trip:
Total distance: 16,982 kilometers. 10,189 miles
This didn?t include countless km?s driving round and round in cities looking for oil or places to stay. Our odometer is broken, so we don?t know actually how many miles we traveled.
Total amount of fuel used: 1,174 liters of veggie oil (317 gallons)
365 liters of veggie oil bought new (100 gallons), 809 liters of used veggie oil (217 gallons).
75 liters of biodiesel (23 gal), from Oakland, Tuscon and 10 liters from Cochabamba, Bolivia.
420 liters of diesel (113 gal) During the drive there were two stretches, once between Parras and Durango (100km) and one between Villahermosa and Palenque (80km) in Mexico where we ran out of veggie oil and had to use diesel. Otherwise, we used diesel when starting and stopping, and often when we arrived to a city, we?d switch to diesel and get lost for hours? But always we used veggie oil on the road, with the exception of a few times when we were climbing really steep high mountains, and it appeared that the car climbed a bit better with diesel.
5 fuel filters used (3 - 2micron Permacools, and three truck diesel filters)
11 little plastic fuel pre-filters used
We used all six of the 10micron Sock Filters Peacenik gave us, and about 25 paper cone filters also. Our filtering system of buckets worked great.
1 gallon of white gas used to heat the veggie oil on our little Swedish campstove for filtering.
3 air filters
3 oil filters
Engine rebuild in Lake Titicaca, Peru: piston rings, valve guides, connecting rod bearings, bearing shells for crankshaft, head gasket, oil pan re-welded, injectors cleaned and rebuilt
Front end suspension/strut work in Panama: New stuts, and lots of parts in the suspension.
Two Sets of new tires (one set slashed, the rest destroyed by roads) and one used wheel.
Alternator rebuild"
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andymc
Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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Forgot the link to the thread:
biodiesel.infopop.cc/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/159605...4
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andymc
Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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