Two Alternative Ways to Travel

I've been following two bloggers recently doing two out-of-the-ordinary trips.  The first, Nicolas Rapp, is intent on driving around the world (with a few water crossing enroute).  He's been on the road since November and is current in Costa Rica, having experience several vehicle breakdowns enroute.  His blog could use some spell and grammer checking and his photos are OK, but its still an interesting endeavor he's undertaking and I'll probably keep follow his blog as he travels onward.

Andrew Evans, who left DC on New Years Day, is traveling to Antarctica by bus.  Interesting concept (again, a water crossing or two or three enroute).  He's already made it to Costa Rica and is now onboard a National Geographic cruise ship to Panama.  His blog, naturally, is hosted by NG (he's a contributing editor to NG Traveler).  The writing is crisper and the photos a bit more illustrative and the trip, clearly, a bit faster paced.  Not that I envy days and nights in a row on a Greyhound, let alone a Guatemalan chicken bus.  But, to each his/her own - but I'm always envious of folks on the road.   

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2009/12/introducing-the-bus2antarctica.html

http://transworldexpedition.com/