The journey of a lifetime awaits you.
A run that will completely circumnavigate the Earth. The real Earth. Going thru real countries, on real roads. You will get to follow yourself around the Globe on a route that covers nearly 30,000 miles. You will cross the greatest desert that you never knew existed and countless mountain ranges that you had never heard of.
In school they taught us about the directions all wrong. East, West, North, South. The 4 directions, as if they were all the same. But they are not the same at all. And our whole view of the earth is changed by the way they differ. If you go East, you go East forever, no matter how many times you pass the place you started. It never becomes West. But, if you go North, it only goes so far, and then you start going South. Then it eventually becomes North again. We treat the earth as if it had a top and a bottom, but no ends. We don't see it as a sphere, but as a tube.
“Truth is, our planet is a ball from every direction.”
Because of our rather limited vision of the planet there are some things that miss our attention... Like the fact that the tip of South America is only separated from Tasmania by the great land mass of the Antarctic continent. Or that it is only a hop and a skip across the North Pole between the top of Norway and the top of Alaska.
But what if we look at the earth in a whole new way? What if we lay that classic globe on its side, and make a new equator that passes thru both North and South Poles? I like this new Earth, with its circumpolar Equator. Because we can now lay out a route around the world that is 80% on land!!!
12 Regions of Adventure
We have divided the planet into 12 Regions, so that you can complete an entire section in a relatively short time, with a medal for each region. When you have completed your journey, there will be a world puzzle into which your pieces will fit to show your complete journey around the earth.
