Argentine family comes home after 22-year drive around the world

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An Argentine family is about to finish the trip of a lifetime: They have covered five continents in a 1928 jalopy on an adventure that began in 2000.

File: Candelaria and Herman Zapp and their children Pampa and Tehue standing next to their 1928 Graham-Page automobile near the US Capitol in Washington DC.GUALEGUAYCHU - An Argentine family is about to finish the trip of a lifetime: They have covered five continents in a 1928 jalopy on an adventure that began in 2000, while bringing into the world and raising four kids who are now adolescents.

Candelaria, who was 29 when the trip began and is now 51, said her biggest and best discovery was the people encountered along the way.She said the family visited no fewer than 102 countries, although sometimes they had to take detours because of wars or other kinds of conflict.The couple had been married six years, had good jobs and had just built a house, with plans to have kids, too, when wanderlust hit. Their round-the-world journey began with a backpacking trip in Alaska.

Herman shows off the roadster by opening up a canvas on the top that forms a sort of tent for the kids to sleep under when it was time to camp out.While out on the road, and with the first two kids born -- Pampa, now 19, came into this world in the US and Tehue, 16, during a visit back to Argentina -- they enlarged the car by actually cutting it in half and adding 40cm of length and another seat.

More on that car, which looks like something out of a gangster movie: the trunk acts like a kitchen storage area, and the heat of the engine is used to cook or heat water. Clothes and tools are stored under the seats. And for all these years, it was home sweet home.

 

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