Pack n send is reprinting parts of this article by Harriet Baskas. The reason we find this article fascinatining is that we ship and move individuals and businesses world wide without ever seeing the destinations that we ship to. The Zapps are seeing these beautiful countries and educating their children at the same time.
Imagine traveling around the world with your family, by car, for 11 years straight.
For some it would be like a dream come true. For others, it would get old pretty quickly.
But Herman and Candelaria Zapp, along with their four children — all born on the road — are living the dream.
The Zapps are childhood sweethearts; they met when she was 8 and he was 10. The couple spent their first few years of married life putting down roots in Argentina, where Herman had his own computer and telephone IT company and they had a nice house with a swimming pool.
“Our family was happy with us. We had it all,” said Herman Zapp.
But something was missing: that around-the-world trip they had talked about while courting — and children. So, the couple set out in 2000 on a pre-baby road trip from Buenos Aires to Alaska.
“We were thinking if we have kids, we will never be able to travel. So we set a day to leave for Alaska and [planned to] have our kids when we come back,” Zapp said.
“Our family was saying that we wouldn’t make it," Zapp said. "The most optimistic were giving us a week’s journey. No more.”
Not only did the couple complete their nearly 44,000-mile initial journey, but they decided to keep going.
Since then, they’ve been to more than two dozen countries and traveled at least 145,000 miles.
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