From Germany's Deutsche Welle News Service:
26 years road trip: Gunther Holtorf and his unbreakable Otto
After 26 years on the road, 76 year old Gunther Holtorf is back on German soil. He traveled to 177 countries, covering more than 884,000 kilometers (about 549,000 miles). And how Gunther is back home.
"The more you have traveled, the more you realize how little you have seen," Holtorf said upon his return to Berlin this week. He traveled with his wife, Christine, completely under the radar – there was no Facebook at the time - no mobile phones and no Web. It was just the two of them and Otto, their beloved Mercedes G wagon, which they consider "the third member of the family."
"Back in 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell, Gunther and his wife Christine set out on what was meant to be an 18-month tour of Africa in their Mercedes Benz G Wagen," states the Facebook page "Gunther Holtorf his Wife and Otto the Mercedes G Waggon," which was created in 2012 when they had covered more than 800,000 kilometers (500,000 miles).
Just wow!
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