Guam - Nicholas Rapp is not your average Guam tourist. He is on his way to completing an around the world road trip - by car. On the road for nearly a year, Rapp has traveled 30,000 miles.
"I left New York, went down to Argentina, Buenas Aires, then put the truck on a boat to South Africa, crossed Africa went through Yemen, Oman took another boat to Iran, went around Iran and India, Bangladesh and now I'm here," he said with a smile.
Rapp is on Guam for a short time taking a break while his truck is being shipped from Bangladesh to Kuala Lumpur. He plans to drive through Thailand, Laos and Cambodia before shipping his truck - and himself - back to the United States. Rapp quit his job in New York as an art director in order to undertake this ambitious voyage.
He is driving a Toyota Land Cruiser he bought for just $6,000 (about $50,000 is what he says the total trip will cost). Rapp says he has run into a roadblock or two, like the time he was stuck in the dessert in Ethiopia surrounded by refugees. He came out just fine after giving away a bit of his drinking water.
Rapp says the economic down turn in the Big Apple prompted his adventure and says he wanted to do something to make himself a better person while showing people the world is not such a terrible place.
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