“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

So wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in his 1879 memoir, Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes. It’s true—as long as there has been a Point A and a Point B, humans have invented some pretty creative methods to move between them.

In the past few months our Instagram feed has illustrated the “great affair” of hitching a ride in a variety of ways—by wheels, water, and beast. Ahead, we have dispatches from Cory Richards in Myanmar, David Alan Harvey in North Carolina and Mexico, Pete Muller