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[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That road, deadass, goes through five war zones. Hell no.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sudan, Palestine, Ukraine, ____, and ____?

[–] overworkedandundersane@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Syria and Gaza. Plus, it runs up along the Congo for quite a ways. That's a route with some chest hair!

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And then there's the matter of whether to start in Cape Town or end in Cape Town

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

first one, then the other

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is a white couple somewhere ready to tackle this.

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[–] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They say it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert at something. You'd have to walk this road about 2 and a half times just to become an expert at walking.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I believe that goes through the Road of Bones in Siberia. From what I saw of Long Way Round (where Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman ride around the world on motorcycles), it's not really a road much of the year. You wouldn't want to walk it in the winter for obvious reasons. You also wouldn't want to walk it in the warmer seasons, because the snow melts and floods the road.

It's only a road in the sense that Google Maps marks it as one.

The documentary simply couldn't continue on the planned route, and they hucked it over to Alaska early on. That was after putting up with some shit ass mud in and around Mongolia where they were dropping their bikes every 10 feet (and I am not exaggerating).

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This would take over 187 days if you didn't have to stop to sleep.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

So I walked the Pacific Crest Trail in 106 days. That's 2650mi/4264km so I walked about 25mi/40km per day.

So if I could maintain that pace (which is debatable because the PCT doesn't go through different countries or warzones) this would take me 557 days, or about 18 months.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Fun fact: If you were able to cross the Bering Straight then the only thing that would keep this road from reaching Argentina would be the Darien Gap, a stretch of dense rainforest that separates Panama from Colombia. Unfortunately it's one of the most inhospitable places on Earth!

If immigrants can do it, then i can too

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

if you could cross this impassable stretch of inhospitable wilderness then all you would need to do is cross this other impassable stretch of inhospitable wilderness!

I know what you meant but it was funny to me haha

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Could always do the old school google walking route and take a kayak with you.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

There are paths through.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 77 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I really don't understand Americans and their racial stuff. Why white?

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (33 children)

Americans (especially non white Americans) tend to speak very frankly about race in a way that can make Europeans uncomfortable. In this context "white" is simply meant to conjure an image of someone with disposable income.

(See "black twitter")

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[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

Best way I can explain American’s “fixation” on race is that our country’s history is based on the attempt to create a racist white utopia through law (slavery, ethnic cleansing, manifest destiny, segregation, Jim Crow, private prisons etc.).

Many of the historical debates, protests, rebellions, riots, and wars we’ve had were largely surrounding the issue of racial equality. And… it never went away because racist white people have evolved their political tactics. They still want “the South to rise again”, they still want “to Make American Great Again”, they still want segregation, slavery, and woman subordination.

You might be thinking, “it’s not that serious”, but the mere fact that America is becoming the de facto Nazi Regime of the West now says it all. Hitler was deeply inspired by America’s Jim Crow laws and used it as a platform to address “the Jewish Question”. But, White American’s racism didn’t just materialize out of nothing. It’s descendant of Western Imperialism and Colonialism that was being exported across the globe by Europeans who had finally come to a geopolitical status quo on their continent after checks notes thousands of years of fighting over whose nation and religion is better.

TL;DR: American’s being fixated on race is just the next phase of geopolitical infighting that came after thousands of years of Europeans fixating on nationality and religion, both of which are becoming less relevant each day than one’s ethnic and cultural identity.

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

as if white supremacy and racial strife originated in america

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Their society is so fixated into that that is haunting. I can't imagine the histeria that a "PoC" has to endure.

[–] HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think it has to do with the very high number of "van life" vloggers who overwhelmingly seem to be white American couples. Google van life vloggers and take a look at the image results.

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[–] GanjaGuru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the road our grandparents used to walk to get to school if the stories they tell are true...

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

That's what they meant by "uphill both ways". Probably referring to having to cross the equator twice. This makes so much sense now.

[–] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 67 points 3 days ago (7 children)

This is the farthest distance not the longest road

Case in point

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 114 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

In the very loose meaning of "can walk". This road crosses several dangerous areas for multiple reasons, from war and jungles, to deserts and tundra, not to mention all the visas you'd need.

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude even excluding the human factors like politics, war, etc, the terrain would just be insanely rough and dangerous in basically every possible way

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

This route walks up the Nile and crosses the desert um Sudan. It then walks down remote roads in the DRC. It's just so over the top insane.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 100 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's a guy on Youtube who crossed the entire length of Africa on foot. Got kidnapped twice IIRC.

Russ Cook.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 57 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i can think of much more exciting things to do if i had a death wish tbh

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 72 points 3 days ago

I got curious. The map/path is real.

BUT

The map begins and ends pretty arbitrarily. Both roads keep going before and beyond those points.

It assumes a ferry ride across the Suez canal (although there is seemingly a new-ish floating bridge that allows pedestrians to cross the canal, but it is only floated out at certain times (and maybe doesn't exist anymore after a boat collision incident?))

[–] match@pawb.social 22 points 2 days ago

legitimately one of the cool things about white people

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Bruh fuck no, I'm gonna die in South Sudan if I walk this.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fucking impressive to make it that far tbh

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[–] Cyniez@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

i didn t get it

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