A Slow Trip Around The World

A Slow Trip Around The World FARM HOME Miscellaneous 31-5-5 Matthias Lause from Dribung, Germany is driving around the world in a Claas tractor. It will take 300 days for the 25-year-old mechanic to get home to Germany. His goal is to raise $60,000 in donations for CARE, an international aid agency that will use the funds to teach African children agricultural skills (www.tractor-world-tour.com). Lause is pulling a trailer made out of a shipping container, complete with a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. Claas helped him build the wagon in addition to supplying him with the tractor and sponsoring the trip. He has other sponsors, too, whose names are on the side of the trailer. Since leaving home he has traveled through parts of Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Morocco and Mexico before entering the U.S. in late April. He then traveled across parts of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana through most of May. His last two and a half weeks on the continent were spent heading west across Alberta and British Columbia. After leaving Vancouver he headed for Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Lesotho, Russia, Ukraine, Poland and finally Germany again. In all, he'll cover 15,500 miles.

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