Чат Охота и собирание мемов (ex P-135)

In June 1972, two young married couples set out from Anchorage, Alaska, on bicycles, aiming to become the first people to ride the length of the Western Hemisphere, all the way to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Argentina (slide 1-8). Dan and Lys Burden and Greg and June Siple split the route into three stages: Alaska down to Missoula, Montana, where they paused for a winter to work and raise money, then on to Oaxaca, Mexico, and finally the long stretch through Central and South America. National Geographic took an interest early on, supplying film and funding for an article Dan Burden wrote and photographed, published in May 1973. Somewhere along the Baja California coast, in a village called Chocolate, the group started talking about something else entirely: a mass bicycle ride across the United States for the country’s 1976 bicentennial. June Siple came up with a name for it. Bikecentennial. In Oaxaca, the trip split. Dan Burden came down with hepatitis back in the US and the Burdens had to abandon Hemistour to focus on building Bikecentennial instead (slide 9). Greg and June Siple kept riding, through Central America and down the spine of South America, arriving in Ushuaia on February 25, 1975. Total distance covered: 18,272 miles. The idea born on that ride outlived the ride itself. In 1976, more than 4,100 cyclists rode all or part of the 4,250-mile TransAmerica Trail for Bikecentennial, and the organization the four of them founded is still running today as the Adventure Cycling Association (slide 10-11). Sources: Web - En.wikipedia . org - Hemistour Web - Adventurecycling . org - Adventure Cycling’s History Web - Mtpr . org - From Alaska to Argentina: Greg and June Siple celebrate 50th anniversary of „Hemistour“ Web - Mtpr . org - The Hemistour and its legacy: Three celebrations of bicycles and the people who ride them #gritanddust