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Tuesday, March 03, 2026

spotted on the walk, I think it's an International TravelAll

Monday, January 05, 2026

Karl Bushby has been walking around the world for 27 years, he left England with $500 in his pocket and went on a mission that no one else in history had ever completed: walking an unbroken path around the world.

Throughout the journey, Bushby has followed two rules: He can only walk or swim, unassisted by any form of transportation, and he cannot return home to Hull, England, until he arrives entirely on foot.

Growing up in a military family, he was inspired by his father who served in the British army. Bushby also joined the army at age 16 and served as a parachute regiment for about 12 years before taking off on his expedition.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/12/31/no-1-lesson-the-goliath-expedition-taught-karl-bushby-about-happiness.html

Saturday, January 03, 2026

George Jelinski, Eagle Scout of Poland, on his round the world tour (good idea for "scouting" as learning self preservation is inescapable while driving around the world) stopping at San Fran city hall in 1928

Jelinski left Warsaw on May 30, 1926, in a white Ford that was named “A Scout Is Clean”, paying all expenses of the trip by lecturing and writing articles for Polish newspapers. (That's a long name for a car, but the clean white thing is quite clever)

Jelinski's tour took him through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, and Italy where he met with with Benito Mussolini, and Sicily, where he embarked for the North African shore.

He drove through Tunisa and Algeria to Casablanca in Morocco, and had traveled about 19,000 miles, the mileage being attested to and verified, by various foreign automobile clubs.

He left Casablanca for America on an export steamer, arriving in Manhattan in August. In Washington he was greeted by President Coolidge in Sept. When he arrived in Detroit, Jelinski was received by the Polish consul for Detroit, who presented him to the Mayor. (Detroit had a large Polish population)

He addressed several Polish-America organizations during his several days' visit here. The Polish Falcons of District 13 raised the funds for a new Buick to replace the light weight Ford model T he had worn out

The happy presentation was made by the owner of Stanley Krajenke Buick, who also presented Jelinski with a membership in the Detroit Automobile Club, the seventeenth organization of its sort which has welcomed him since he left Warsaw.

JFK was photographed in front of Krajenke Buick 30 some years later

Jelinski was also welcomed by James E. West, chief Scout executive of the United States, on behalf of the 870,000 Scouts in the United States. From Detroit his route was through Toledo, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities.

He continued his journey to San Francisco, and left on the ship Taiyo Maru, and on July 13 arrived in Hawaii, then rode to Japan, where he traveled from Yokohama to Kobe, arriving there in mid-August

He planned to return to Poland through China, but there was a civil war going on there, and he gave up the idea of traveling to India at the last moment due to insufficient financial resources. Jeliński left Japan around September after visiting Nagasaki, then set out for Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

The expedition was described in the book "Under the Polish Flag by Car Around the World" published in 1929 by Władysław Umiński. The book is free online, but in Polish. https://www.ee.pw.edu.pl/~kwestorm/jelinski/uminski_jelinski.pdf

His grandson made a replica of the Buick

a replica of the Ford is in the Museum and Centre of the Scout Movement in Krakow

After his time in the scouts and his round the world tour, he was a sailor and returned to the USA, going to Hollywood to learn to be a cinematographer. He studied modern film techniques and camera operation in Hollywood, becoming a professional cameraman.

Returning to Poland in the mid-1930s, he founded the Laborpat company, which dealt in film processing and production.

During World War II, the Germans confiscated equipment from Laborpat, destroying the company. Jeliński was participant of the Polish-Bolshevik War, and member of the resistance movement during World War II.

After WW2, he established a rickshaw and handcart factory.

He died in 1986

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/433

https://opensfhistory.org/NeighborhoodPhotos/Civic_Center/child

https://www.nytimes.com/1927/09/23/archives/on-world-tour-in-auto-polish-boy-scout-master-is-received-by.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/63828311648/posts/10162072540351649/

https://time.com/archive/6656249/national-affairs-around-the-world/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2965587276847192&set=pcb.2965594886846431

https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/custom/mirador?manifest=https://collections.lib.uwm.edu//iiif/info/mke-polonia/32397/manifest.json

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Jeli%C5%84ski

https://twojapolonia.tvp.pl/73803582/wielka-przygoda-polskiego-podroznika-95-lat-temu-jerzy-jelinski-ukonczyl-samochodowy-objazd-swiata

It's uncommon to find photos of Boy Scouts as they are too young to drive, typically. I remember the ones using a wagon to hike from Minnesota to San Francisco for the 1914 Pan Pacific Expo though https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/01/1914-kids-were-made-of-tough-pioneer.html

The scouts from Brazil that drove a Jeep to Canada https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2023/02/coffee-and-dunts-video-in-1955-three.html

The scouts on the Lincoln Highway with a covered wagon in 1928 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/03/i-think-i-posted-this-before-but-cant.html

in a 1927 article, U. S. Boy Scouts trekking through foreign lands were mentioned:

Sixteen Eagle Scouts from Wayne, Pa., were welcomed by the acting Lord Mayor of London.

Eight Sea Scouts from Chicago constitute part of the crew of the John Borden-Field Museum expedition, now collecting fauna in Arctic regions.

Two Scouts from Excelsior, Minn., are officially carrying greetings to Denmark.

In 1926, the following outstanding men were made honorary scouts:

Roy Chapman Andrews

Robert Abram Bartlett

Frederick R. Burnham (horse mounted messenger for Western Union, actual US Cavalry scout, taught by native American Army scouts, fought in the Boer wars, and then taught Baden Powell trail signs and woodcraft, then went gold prospecting in the Yukon, and wrote his excellent biography, that I've read and have a copy of and recommend, Scouting On Two Continents https://www.facebook.com/groups/1491191564434558/posts/1514731728747208)

Richard E. Byrd

George K. Cherrie

James L. Clark

Merian C. Cooper

Lincoln Ellsworth, polar explorer in above airplane, which was once buried by an 8 day blizzard, and he dug it out, with a teacup. The only implement he had at hand

Louis Agassiz Fuertes

George Bird Grinnell

Charles A. Lindbergh

Donald Baxter MacMillan, arctic explorer next to his tracked vehicle, 1927

Clifford H. Pope

George Palmer Putnam, Amelia Earhart's husband

Kermit Roosevelt

Carl Rungius

Stewart Edward White

Orville Wright

Of the 294 men and women selected to be astronauts since 1959 to 2005, more than 180 have been Scouts and of the 27 men to travel to the moon on the Apollo 9 through Apollo 17 missions, 24 were Scouts, including 11 of the 12 men who physically walked on the moon's surface, and all three members of the crew of Apollo 13 mission, that had it's oxygen tank explode meaning the landing mission had to be aborted.

Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Swanton Berry Farm's sign, a landmark on the Pacific Coast Highway above Santa Cruz, California

https://www.deere.com/en/publications/the-furrow/2025/april-2025/roadside-attraction

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

"Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expo", Seattle, June, 1909

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=6250685234970182&set=pcb.10167400017915548

Monday, April 03, 2023

from Alaska to Argentina on a bike at age 17 after graduating high school

https://www.insider.com/teen-cycles-20000-miles-alaska-argentina-2023-4

Wednesday, June 08, 2022

my cell phone service provider, T Mobile, sent me a text offer for a free year of Apple Tv - of course I accepted. Now I'm watching Ewan McGregor's most recent international motorcycle ride, Long Way Up (2019)

I've only seen the first 2 episodes so far, to this moment, and I must say I'm shocked (but shouldn't be) how moved I am that the good people at Harley Davidson made two electric motorcycles for this movie, for Ewan and his buddy Charlie, that were prototypes, not adapted or customized production bikes.

I simply want to emphasis that the people at Harley did not do this during working hours, they VOLUNTEERED to build these on their own time! WOW! In about 12 weeks, they made 2 bikes, that would be traveling 12 thousand miles

Glenn, Steve, Rachel, Jim, and several other people I must apologize to for not getting their names, as it was only the people who spoke in the movie who had their names put on screen so we viewers could learn who they are. The credits at the end of the episode didn't list the team who built the bikes either.

If and when I learn who is to be applauded and appreciated for the Harleys, I WILL of course come back to this post and add their names!

But Rachel went to South America to be point on troubleshooting last minute emergency problems, and had a serious issue or two to overcome, far from normal supply and logistics help. So, kudos to Rachel!

By the way, the 1st things I watched on Apple were the Tom Hanks movies that are exclusive to Apple, Finch, and Greyhound, and they were fantastic. They do NOT disappoint.

I had forgotten how little that Apple charges a month, 5 dollars. That's quite likely the least of all the streaming services, but to be fair, Apple probably has the least number of movies and tv series to watch.

Darn thing is, it's content that is not, and will not, be available in any other way. I expect to watch this motorcycle adventure, and the dinosaur show, Prehistoric Planet, Mr Corman, Wolfwalkers (animated by that amazing company that did the other Celtic animated movie I loved so much The Secret of Kells), Little Voice, Invasion, Dickinson (I love her poetry the most, (you did see I have a poetry blog, didn't you? http://better-than-palgrave.blogspot.com ) and it's a comedy) See, and Foundation (I never did read the books, was glad to see they made a movie series of it!

I have hardly begun to look through the available shows, documentaries and movies, so, I'm not yet aware of what all there is to see on Apple Tv... but I hope there are great movies and documentaries, maybe even concerts

Thursday, December 05, 2019

Believe it or not, there were two Scouts at SEMA that looked like this... and I forgot to take photos of the other one

I believe this was in the Overlander area to show the diesel engine, a Cummins,

not my video, not me recording, but it's nice to get a video look at cars in addition to photos.

The other was the Gas Monkey Garage "Hellscout" - and Mike C sent me a photo - he's a help!