Freespirit Magazine

Have you ever returned from a trip and wished there were an easier way to show your friends and family the exact route you took on your journey?

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In many ways, Jason Bourne is the ultimate vagabond: he has multiple passports, speaks multiple languages and has no permanent address.

It has been a long, challenging, and adventurous journey for cyclist Mark Beaumont, but he has, at last, reached the "End of the World", Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Mark set off from Alaska last spring, 268 days ago in fact, and has ridden his trusty bicycle all the way to the tip of South America. In the process, he rode 13,080 miles and crossed through 12 countires. Oh yeah, and along the way, he managed to summit the 20,320 foot Denali and the 22,841 foot Aconcagua, the tallest mountains in North and South America respectively.

Hanoi, Vietnam

If you have ever seen an artistic rendering of a prehistoric caveman sitting around the campfire with his buddies, you may have thought, boy, we’ve come a long way! Or then again, if you’re like me, maybe you didn’t think this at all.

Even as vagabonders, we pick our travel destinations more often than not. We say that we want to go to Southeast Asia, or Peru, or Morocco, and to varying degrees we research those destinations and we go.