Coolest. Road trips. Ever.

I love a good road trip.  Think about all the fun- peeing in a Gatorade bottle (only to mistake it an hour later when you’re thirsty), bedbug infested roadside motels (where you rent the room by the hour only to have toothless Mr. People of Walmart at the front desk ask if he can be the first customer), and routing yourself through a metropolis in the middle of rush hour.  But really, they’re so much fun!

This couple’s road trip trumps them all.  They decided to 4×4 their way through the Democratic Republic of Congo.  No weapons, no special security forces; just bribes, potholes the size of elephants, cannibal rebels, and city folk with machetes.  The fact that they lived to tell these stories is crazy enough, but the pictures really help you visualize the whole trip too.

And if you decide this is your thing (traveling the world from your living room), check out Long Way Round (Europe, former USSR, and across the US) or Long Way Down (Scotland to South Africa) chronicling Ewan McGregor (yes, of Star Wars fame) and Charlie Boorman’s adventures driving their motorcycles across the globe.  And finally, who knew a successful Wall Street legend would have the huevos necessary to cavort the world on a bike with his girlfriend back in 1990.  Read Investment Biker by Jim Rogers.  It’s part economics, part travel, and part what the hell have we gotten ourselves into?