Gunther Holtorf is a legendary tourist that’s been to almost every country in the world, he is famous for driving the same mercedes g wagon the entire trip. The car has something like 800k miles on it with all the original components, it never broke down.
Here is what Gunther has to say after 20-something years of living on the road:
> I’m very glad to be at home. I like the place where I live. I realize now how good I have it at home after having seen all the shitty, negative places, all the overpopulated places all around the world. The unbelievably big cities where people don’t live next to each other but right on top of each other. I’m glad to be back here in Germany where we have space, security, oxygen, and peace.
In the small village I live in, in the state of Bavaria, people have their milk farms, they are hippies, they don’t want to travel anywhere and they don’t envy me. They’re happy. They’re settled and happy with what they have. They don’t want to travel because they realize they live in one of the best places on earth, aside from the bad weather.
Interesting, I will make sure to let anyone who tells me how great the third world is what the most traveled man ever has to say next time they tell me “you stop being racist when you travel” or something stupid like that.
Link to article, worth checking out: https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/worlds-greatest-traveler-1988-mercedes-has-been-172-countries/
