Around the World in 450 Days in a Black Cab
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Three friends have traveled around the world to 51 countries in 450 days in a British black cab, breaking two records along the way.
British university students Paul Archer, Johno Ellison and Leigh Purnell reached the highest ever altitude by taxi—17,143 feet at Everest Base camp and they clocked up the longest journey by taxi at 43,321 miles—the equivalent of an 80,000 pound (US$129,000) fare.
Luckily they were off the meter in the 20-year-old black London cab named "Hannah", which they shipped from the first leg of the trip in Sydney, February 2011, to San Francisco—driving from the west to the east coast, through parts of Mexico, Israel, Eastern Europe, Spain, France and finally home to England on May 11.
Ellison explained the reasons for their mammoth journey.
[Johno Ellison, Record Breaker]:
"One day we were sitting in the back of a taxi, all a little bit drunk. We were watching the meter go higher and higher and we thought ‘What's the highest it's ever been?’ So we looked online and there was a world record and we thought, ‘We're going to break that’ and we did."
[Leigh Purnell, Record Breaker]:
"We didn't want to see how many jellybeans we could put in our mouth, we wanted to do something more adventurous, so instead of just traveling around the world once we'd finished university, we worked and we did this, so that was our challenge to us."
Their trip saw them negotiate herds of Armenian sheep, get arrested in Moscow, be detained by the Iranian Secret Police where Paul Archer was subsequently deported as a suspected spy. They even got stuck on the border of Moldova with the wrong visa, but managed to negotiate their way into the country as one of their friends' mothers knew the president.
The trio has managed to raise more than 20,000 pounds (US$32,165) for the British Red Cross...
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Three friends have traveled around the world to 51 countries in 450 days in a British black cab, breaking two records along the way.
British university students Paul Archer, Johno Ellison and Leigh Purnell reached the highest ever altitude by taxi—17,143 feet at Everest Base camp and they clocked up the longest journey by taxi at 43,321 miles—the equivalent of an 80,000 pound (US$129,000) fare.
Luckily they were off the meter in the 20-year-old black London cab named "Hannah", which they shipped from the first leg of the trip in Sydney, February 2011, to San Francisco—driving from the west to the east coast, through parts of Mexico, Israel, Eastern Europe, Spain, France and finally home to England on May 11.
Ellison explained the reasons for their mammoth journey.
[Johno Ellison, Record Breaker]:
"One day we were sitting in the back of a taxi, all a little bit drunk. We were watching the meter go higher and higher and we thought ‘What's the highest it's ever been?’ So we looked online and there was a world record and we thought, ‘We're going to break that’ and we did."
[Leigh Purnell, Record Breaker]:
"We didn't want to see how many jellybeans we could put in our mouth, we wanted to do something more adventurous, so instead of just traveling around the world once we'd finished university, we worked and we did this, so that was our challenge to us."
Their trip saw them negotiate herds of Armenian sheep, get arrested in Moscow, be detained by the Iranian Secret Police where Paul Archer was subsequently deported as a suspected spy. They even got stuck on the border of Moldova with the wrong visa, but managed to negotiate their way into the country as one of their friends' mothers knew the president.
The trio has managed to raise more than 20,000 pounds (US$32,165) for the British Red Cross...