The Longest Bus Ride

Indian expedition company thinks that many people will find the thought of spending 56 days on a bus appealing.

We know that that title may sound like the name of a horror movie, but an

Adventures Overland is launching the “world’s longest bus journey,” set to depart in the summer. Thirty lucky passengers will be spending eight weeks together traversing 22 countries – from Istanbul, Turkey, through the Balkans, eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and western Europe, and finally ending up in London.

Along the way, they’ll enjoy a ferry crossing on the Gulf of Finland and a visit to the North Cape (or Nordkapp), the northernmost point in continental Europe, and a cruise along the Norwegian Fjords.

The price? Around $24K, but that includes a daily breakfast and 30 lunches and dinners along with hotel stays.

The bus ride will cover around 12,000 kilometers – much more than the current longest bus ride in the world. That record runs for 6,200 kilometers and connects Peru’s Lima to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

Better book fast. The tour is scheduled to leave Istanbul on August 7 and arrive in London on October 1. We’re opting to stay home.

Surf’s Up

If you don’t surf, you have no excuse. That’s because Seiichi Sano is turning 90 this year and he’s still riding the waves. That’s not all that the senior citizen is doing. When he turned 80, he climbed Mt. Fuji, Japan’s highest peak. Looking for another adventure, he turned to surfing.

Sano has a big birthday coming up, and after being recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest male to surf, he’s ready for other tests.

“Maybe I’ll try bouldering,” he said, suggesting he might do it first in a gym. “Outside it might be a bit dangerous.”

Bungee-jumping is “too scary” for the fearless man.

Still, he loves the waves.

“I think it would be interesting to try to surf until I’m 100,” Sano said. “I think I take better care of myself when I have goals like this. Even now, I take better care of myself than I did before.”

Sano was inspired to take up surfing by an employee at his local bank, who was always tan and didn’t look like a typical banker. His secret, he said, was surfing. So Sano followed up and found a teacher.

“I don’t consider myself an old man,” he shared. “I have never thought of myself as an old person. I always feel that I can still move forward. I can still do it. I can still enjoy it.”

Sano is not looking for perfection when surfing. He’s doing it for fun.

“I can only say that I just enjoy myself and do what I want without stressing out,” he said. “So if you try to be too good at it, or think that you have to do it this way or that way, I think you lose the fun.

“I enjoy being swept up in the wave,” he added. “I am not a good surfer. So I call myself a ‘small-wave surfer’ — out of respect for those who surf well.”

Sano still runs a business that supplies timber to construction companies, and still works 9-to-5 at the job. Surfing is a stress reliever for the busy man.

“People often say that surfing is life itself,” he said. “If I describe it in one word, I think it really applies to me right now.” Dude!

Boy in the Tent

Woosey was 10 years old when he started his “Boy in the Tent” project in the yard of his home on March 28, 2020. Last Tuesday, on March 28, 2023, exactly three years later, he spent his last night outdoors.

Woosey started the project as a fundraiser for North Devon Hospice, the facility that cared for his neighbor, Rick Abbot, who died of cancer in 2020.

“Before my neighbor died of cancer, he gave me a tent and told me to ‘have an adventure,’” Woosey told Guinness World Records.

Woosey, whose nights in the tent were chronicled on social media, raised more than $860,000 with his project, earning the world record for most money raised by camping (individual).

crazy that it has got so much attention, but I hope it makes people see that children are capable of a lot more than people think.”

We hope he’ll be content when he’s not sleeping in a tent.