How to Road Trip Around the World Rich and Amanda Ligato drove a VW van for 59,480 miles (95,724 kilometers) from California to Uganda via Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Photograph by Rich and Amanda Ligato
Trekking into the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in the Virunga Mountains at the three-way border between Rwanda, the Congo, and Uganda, we hiked for hours searching for signs of the endangered mountain gorillas. In this war-torn region, we hired a group of soldiers to protect us from the guerillas who use the jungle as a base of operation. —Amanda and Rich Ligato