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Charlie Chaplin with visitors to his studio: top and bottom photo to Charlie's left is Aloha Wanderwell.
Aloha Wanderwell (Idris Galcia Hall née Welsh, October 13, 1906 – June 4, 1996) was a Canadian explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator. Beginning when she was 16 years old, she become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, driving a Ford 1918 Model T over a five year period (1922–1927). Ultimately she traveled 500,000 miles across 80 countries.
In the 1920s, Aloha Wanderwell became the first woman to drive around the world. Along the way, she made friends with Chinese bandits, used water buffalo to tow her Model T across rivers in India, and disguised herself as a man to pray in Mecca.
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You could say she was the female Indiana Jones, except of course, Indie was a fictional character, and Aloha Wanderwell was very much the real deal. After landing a seaplane on an unexplored stretch of the Amazonian River, she captured the oldest visual recordings of Stone Age peoples while living a
Aloha Wanderwell was the Amelia Earhart of the automobile.
AN 18-YEAR-OLD WOMAN DRESSED IN men’s riding breeches and a scout’s cap lay restless at the foot of the Great Sphinx in Egypt. It was 1924, just two years after archeologist Howard Carter opened the tomb of Tutankhamun. “I could not bear to sleep,” the woman wrote in her memoir, Call to Adventure. “I sat on a sand dune and watched the full moon sail in a sky that was a like an upturned goblet of dark, blue glass.
“There were trillions of stars, and not far away I could see the outline of the Sphinx, smiling and sightless.”
This was one of many adventures that Aloha Wanderwell, recorded during her seven-year automobile expedition around the world. Newspaper headlines deemed her the “World’s Most Widely Traveled Girl,” “The Amelia Earhart of the Automobile,” and “The First Woman to Drive Around the World in an Automobile.”
Lexi Limitless: Pioneering Electric Vehicle Journey Around the Globe
Lexi Limitless: A Journey Beyond Borders Lexi Alford, widely recognized as Lexi Limitless, has made quite an impression in the travel community. Having broken a world record at just 21 years old, she became the youngest individual to visit every country in the world. Now, in her late twenties, Lexi is embarking on another ambitious quest: to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe in…
ALOHA WANDERWELL // EXPLORER
“In the 1920s, she became the first woman to drive around the world, 380,000 miles across 80 countries. It took five years and along the way, she made friends with Chinese bandits, used water buffalo to tow her Model T across rivers in India and disguised herself as a man to pray in Mecca. She was an explorer, author, filmmaker and aviator. Her husband, Walter Wanderwell, was murdered a day before embarking on a voyage to the South Seas.”
Ford’un tamamen elektrikli modeli Explorer dünya turuna çıkıyor
Ford, tamamen elektrikli yeni Explorer modelini tanıtmak için Lexie Limitless olarak bilinen influencer Lexie Alford ile anlaştı. Lexie’nin yapacağı bu iddialı dünya turu macerası, 1920’li yıllarda Ford’un Model T otomobili ile dünyayı dolaşarak rekor kıran Aloha Wanderwell’den esinlenildi. Aloha Wanderwell 1922 ve 1927 yılları arasında 43 ülkeyi kapsayan yolculuğuyla dünyayı otomobille dolaşan…
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