Acrobat of the Road is a blog by Juan and Laura. Juan became a hitchhiking nomad on May 1st 2005 and has been traveling ever since! He has been to Europe, Middle East, China, Tibet, India, Laos and Thailand! He somehow ended up in Argentina and met his life mate Laura.
Now, they are attempting to hitchhike from Antarctica to Greenland!
Besides all the hitchhiking stuff (which is really cool and inspiring) they also have a project where they involve school children, villages and neighborhoods. They show pictures of other countries and have the ambitious and wonderful goal of generating empathy and intercultural understanding.
From their website:
“By sharing updated images of everyday life of the countries already visited we display world hospitality and transmit the fact that a better world is not only possible but actually already exists.
Also, when addressing high-school level students we install the concept of travelling as a method to acquire knowledge and plant the seed of curiosity.
We never introduce ourselves as otherworldly heroes but rather show that travelling (not tourism) is at everyone’s reach.”
We think that this is an incredible project… and because of that we sent them an email!
Beginning of email:
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Mangomanjaro: Hi,
found your website through CouchSurfing.
Really awesome project you’re up to.
Where are you guys at now?
Paraguay?
Acrobat of the Road: HI we are already in Bolivia! Thanks for your message!
Mangomanjaro: We hitchhiked from Poland to Pakistan, and blogged about it at https://mangomanjaro.se .
Now when we’re back home, we’re writing an article about you.
Acrobat of the Road: About me? really? Go ahead! thanks again!
Mangomanjaro: Do you have any specific images that you would allow us to use in the article?
Acrobat of the Road: All of them are available to share in this case. Note I am not travelling alone, but together with my girlfriend Laura.
Mangomanjaro: Are there any specific thoughts or causes that are more important to you than others?
Acrobat of the Road: Check on the menu, you will find the whole idea is to portray world hospitality and write books to spread the word! I would be really greatful if you could share a link to my e-book “Vagabonding in the Axis of Evil – By thumb in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan“.
By selling the e-book we fund the educational nomadic project…
Mangomanjaro: How did you come up with the idea to connect the south and north pole by hitchhiking?
Is it a common concept in south america?
Acrobat of the Road: It’s not a common idea. People normally go as far north as Mexico… The idea is to work out a book about the American continent, so that means going all the well. Alaska is too obvious so we decided to hit Greenland.
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That was the email conversation :) !
Check them out at http://acrobatoftheroad.blogspot.com, buy the book and send them an email!