A family from Argentina broke the record of the longest holiday: 11 years on the road with their car, and they have no intention of stopping.
Herman and Candelaria Zapp, along with their four children, all born while they were on the road, are experiencing what they describe as a real dream.
From Buenos Aires to Alaska
Like Harriet Baskas says on the Msnbc website, the couple spent the first years after their marriage nestling in Argentina, where Herman had an IT company working in the field of computer and telephony. The family owned a beautiful house complete with swimming pool. As Herman Zapp says, "Our family was happy and we had everything." But something was missing: the holidays around the world they talked about while they were engaged, and children. So the couple started in 2000 with a drive from Buenos Aires to Alaska.
145 thousand miles
As Mr.Zapp reveals, at the beginning of the adventure "our family told us we would have failed. The most optimistic ones thought that we'd have endured a week at most." Instead, the couple has not only completed the trip they originally planned, (44 thousand miles long) but also decided to continue. Since then, the Zapps has been in over 12 countries and have traveled at least 145 thousand miles.
4 children born in 4 countries
Each of their four children was born in a different country: Pampa, eight years old, in the United States; Tehue, five, in Argentina; Paloma, three, in Canada; and the little Wallaby, one year old, born in Australia.
For the duration of their adventure, 11 years long, the Zapps traveled on a Graham Paige, Model 610, produced in 1928 in Detroit.
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