Dare to surpass yourself - The longest walkable distance

Ionut-Marius Musteret Start Date: Dec 20, 2022 - End Date: Dec 19, 2023
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Vacation/Personal Trip
  • Cape Town, Africa de Sud
  • Botswana
  • Zimbabwe
  • Zambia
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Georgia
  • Egipt
  • Iordania
  • Siria
  • Turcia
  • Romania
  • Belarus

My Travel Story

by: Ionut-Marius Musteret Start Date: Dec 20, 2022 - End Date: Dec 19, 2023
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Vacation/Personal Trip
Hello, good and beautiful man,

My name is Ionut, I am 27 years old and I am from Romania. I have thought a lot about what to write and yet I feel that I could not convey the essence of my thoughts completely. Since I was a child I was passionate about traveling, walking, and mountains. I have always been fascinated by people who carry a backpack on their backs and go out to discover the world far and wide. A passion so ardent that unfortunately, I have put it aside for the convenience of today. But as time goes by, I feel more and more the call to the unknown, especially after having walked a few hundred kilometers on foot.

If you have a dream, you should follow it to the end because then life will start to be more and more grey, mornings more and more dull, days more and more lacking in energy, nights more and more full of negative thoughts and the world will start to seem sadder and sadder. I've known happiness through walking, through dozens of kilometers a day, through forests, villages, and mountains. It's such an enjoyable madness and I love doing it. And because the Universe certainly gives you signs, I recently discovered The longest walkable distance that stretches 22,387 km and has remained untraveled by humans to this day.
If you walk continuously, without any break, you can finish the walk in 187 days with a total time of 4,492 hours. However, if you are walking 8 hours a day, it will take 562 days to complete. On the whole, it will at least take three years for a person to complete the trip. The longest walkable distance, from Cape Town in South Africa to the port town of Magadan on the eastern side of Russia, is yet to be explored. No human has ever gone on this long a walk.
The distance between these two destinations is 22,387 km. It is curated in such a way that travelers do not require flights, ferries or boats. The route is all about roads and bridges. Passengers can travel via Africa, and cross the Suez Canal via Turkey, Central Asia, and then to Siberia to Russia. Not just these regions, travelers will cross 17 countries, and six time zones, keeping in mind all the seasons and weather conditions.
Crazy, huh? And it may seem impossible, but mankind has always found a way to break through this barrier and does it every day. Certainly, the risks are enormous, both from nature and man, but how can we fail if we don't even try? And what's left of human life if we kill every dream we have?

But no matter how much I dream, I know it is impossible for me to do it without enormous financial support, people, and sponsors to help me achieve my dream or to fail to try. It will take money for equipment, money for the training period which will consist of hundreds, thousands of kilometers of other routes on foot, money for accommodation, food, money to put together a team to take care of the legal side, to calculate the routes, the weather, possible auxiliary routes and much more.
It's a unique event in history that will be documented step by step and can make a huge positive impact on the world. We are each born to do great things, we just have to follow our calling regardless of the obstacles.

I know there will be critics, there will certainly be people with conflicting opinions, people who would never imagine that this is possible, and everyone is right. But on the other side of the fence are the people who throughout their lives have overcome seemingly impossible obstacles and taken humanity to another level, the dreamers, the people who take their destiny into their own hands and go to the ends of the earth for what makes them happy. We can't change the world if we don't start with ourselves.

Once a partial amount has been raised I will start the preparation. Each route I will do will be documented every day, for now on facebook and instagram, but in time a youtube channel will appear. I want to make a positive impact in people's lives, to motivate and encourage big dreams.

Thank you so much for your help, the story is just beginning, stay tuned!

With the best thoughts,
Ionut the crazy man with a crazy dream
  • Cape Town, Africa de Sud
  • Botswana
  • Zimbabwe
  • Zambia
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Georgia
  • Egipt
  • Iordania
  • Siria
  • Turcia
  • Romania
  • Belarus

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