Odyssey: Driving Around the World (2007)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Seven Americans drive from San Francisco through 26 countries over 15 months. They meet people along the way including a Pol Pot survivor, Buddhist monks, and the Dalai Lama.

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What happens

Odyssey: Driving Around the World is a documentary television series. It follows the 66,000-kilometre (41,000 mi) driving expedition of seven Americans, including travel writer Rolf Potts. They depart from San Francisco and head south through 26 countries of North America, South America, Australia, and Asia, and back home 15 months later. The team's experience include encounters with a Pol Pot survivor in Cambodia, a Buddhist orphanage in Myanmar, and the Dalai Lama in India. Guest appearances include actor Michael J. Fox and director James Cameron. Burgess Productions produced the series. ODYSSEY is the title of the documentary travel adventure series itself, with Driving Around the World as the subtitle for the first season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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