Running the circumference of the earth: A love story
Lark Gould
LOS ANGELES, September 7, 2013 – Travel can bring people together – and it can pull them apart, as noted in the indie film, “The 25,000 Mile Love Story,” which wraps up the Rome International Film Festival this weekend in Rome, GA.
The story is a mile-by-mile allegory of one of the world’s leading endurance athletes who decides to run the circumference of the earth with his wife on her motorbike at his side. What truths they find are the stuff of, well, movies and books, and perhaps philosophers.
This real life Forrest Gump was no stranger to endurance feats and nor was his wife. Serge and Nicole Roetheli had done this before – the Pan American Highway took them two years in the mid-1990s, but that was only 14,984 miles. Adding more than 10,000 miles to a course, as they did from 2000-2005, can set any relationship on a dangerous trajectory and that is what happened with the Swiss couple’s 25,422-mile journey down the world’s most remote roads and some of the heart’s darkest places during this world adventure. . . .
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/larkslist/2013/sep/7/running-circumference-earth-travel-adventure/#ixzz2eJIAPb29
"the Roethelis encountered exceptionally challenging situations along their route, including civil wars, dangerous animals, poisonous snakes and extreme weather conditions."
What, no mention of the high possibility of 'random' nonwhite-on-white violent crime? Which makes you wonder, did they skirt Detroit? How about the teeming simmering Muslim neighborhoods of London and Paris?
"Note: To build upon Roetheli’s humanitarian mission, 50% of the proceeds from the book go directly to Lil’ Red Foundation, which actively supports housing and education programs in developing nations."
Inspiring, and yet all a perfect example and symbolic of the traits of so many of my fellow whites, the main distinguishing characteristic of which could be said to be an individualistic dynamism that pushes us to the moon, a goal which probably would not have occurred to most of the other peoples of the earth. Characteristics which include a lot of hard work, persistence, curiosity, creativity, love of adventure and an overflowing naive good-works idealism toward the 'other,' the unintended consequences of which often make world problems worse and will ultimately, if things stay on their present course, demographically destroy Western civilization.
What, no mention of the high possibility of 'random' nonwhite-on-white violent crime? Which makes you wonder, did they skirt Detroit? How about the teeming simmering Muslim neighborhoods of London and Paris?
"Note: To build upon Roetheli’s humanitarian mission, 50% of the proceeds from the book go directly to Lil’ Red Foundation, which actively supports housing and education programs in developing nations."
Inspiring, and yet all a perfect example and symbolic of the traits of so many of my fellow whites, the main distinguishing characteristic of which could be said to be an individualistic dynamism that pushes us to the moon, a goal which probably would not have occurred to most of the other peoples of the earth. Characteristics which include a lot of hard work, persistence, curiosity, creativity, love of adventure and an overflowing naive good-works idealism toward the 'other,' the unintended consequences of which often make world problems worse and will ultimately, if things stay on their present course, demographically destroy Western civilization.
Still, an amazing achievement--congratulations!
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Spoiler alert:
They broke up? That should not have been revealed in the review.
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