In the times of inflationary cost and escalating prices anything we plan to buy or incur an expense always ends up drilling a hole in to the pockets.This may be a case with most of us planning a trip for a vacation or cracking up an idea of a foreign tour or even for that matter buying any thing while shopping.But Michael Wigge has a different story to tell us all.An Unbelievable attempt of this award winning comedian Michael Wigge to travel 25,000 miles from Europe to Antarctica without a single penny in his pocket.An amazingly true story but hard to accept on the lines of reality .This traveller has unusual experiences to share in his diary.With the help of 100 people this go getter traveller managed to get free food, accommodation and transportation for his 150 days expedition of 11 countries.
Let us take a small sneak peek of his adventure.Wigge started off from Berlin in June 2010 and planned the journey for a year relying on contacts and kindness of other strangers.He went even to the extent of Dumpster Diving scrounging around for food initially to accomplish this strange task. Then he gave this up as it seemed too unreasonable and started to do barter in restaurants.He would clean windows and floors in restaurants in exchange for food.In places like Latin America people were helpful and hospitable enough to offer him a space to sleep for the night.He crossed the Atlantic working his way in a container ship from Belgium to Canada.In Las Vegas he indulged in pillow fights for $1 on the streets and in San Francisco he collected tips from heavy tourists to push them up the hill. Doing all this he pooled enough money to avail an air fare to Costa Rica where he hitchhiked to Panama working as a butler to a German Ambassador.Then to parts of South America he worked as an assistant in a luxury ship.One of his worst job stints during this journey has been working as a porter carrying tourists luggage in exchange for a trip to Machu Picchu.Then from Peru he came back to Antartica in November 2010.From there to fly back to Berlin he accessed his own bank account for the return expense.
That was the courage and high spirit of this man to travel one way to Antartica from Berlin at zero personal cost.With a variety of experiences which were both a mixture of highs and lows this expedition was really one worth to remember for a life time.
Let us take a small sneak peek of his adventure.Wigge started off from Berlin in June 2010 and planned the journey for a year relying on contacts and kindness of other strangers.He went even to the extent of Dumpster Diving scrounging around for food initially to accomplish this strange task. Then he gave this up as it seemed too unreasonable and started to do barter in restaurants.He would clean windows and floors in restaurants in exchange for food.In places like Latin America people were helpful and hospitable enough to offer him a space to sleep for the night.He crossed the Atlantic working his way in a container ship from Belgium to Canada.In Las Vegas he indulged in pillow fights for $1 on the streets and in San Francisco he collected tips from heavy tourists to push them up the hill. Doing all this he pooled enough money to avail an air fare to Costa Rica where he hitchhiked to Panama working as a butler to a German Ambassador.Then to parts of South America he worked as an assistant in a luxury ship.One of his worst job stints during this journey has been working as a porter carrying tourists luggage in exchange for a trip to Machu Picchu.Then from Peru he came back to Antartica in November 2010.From there to fly back to Berlin he accessed his own bank account for the return expense.
That was the courage and high spirit of this man to travel one way to Antartica from Berlin at zero personal cost.With a variety of experiences which were both a mixture of highs and lows this expedition was really one worth to remember for a life time.
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