
40 years ago today 1980 Volvo starts Around the World Guinness Record Drive
Forty years ago today, September 6, 1980, Garry Sowerby and Ken Langley, two young Canadian men from the Maritimes, set off from Toronto’s CN Tower

Forty years ago today, September 6, 1980, Garry Sowerby and Ken Langley, two young Canadian men from the Maritimes, set off from Toronto’s CN Tower

In Africa to determine routing across the continent for a Guinness World Record attempt, Garry Sowerby finds himself stranded in Burundi. November 18, 1983…

Moyale, Kenya. April 10, 1984… Even though I grew up with an identical twin, the most memorable incident of mistaken identity I’ve ever been involved

October 6, 1980, Kullu, India… A drizzle of daybreak filtered through the window, ushering in Day 33 of our Guinness World Record attempt to drive

Toronto’s CN Tower was less than five years old in 1980 when Ken Langley and I set off from its base in an attempt to

Summer, 1987… Somewhere between Tierra del Fuego, South America and Halifax, Nova Scotia. I’d been on airplanes for almost 24 hours. The ordeal involved a

I awoke at 5:20 that April morning on a flat car at the end of a creeping freight train. Ken and our Ethiopian guide,

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