10 MPH is a comical documentary, directed by Hunter Weeks. The film starts with Josh Caldwell, where he is along with the two-wheeled electronic scooter, Segway HT. The documentary actually gets the name by an average speed of the Segway. Two friends choose to travel with this scooter from Seattle to Boston with an average speed of 10 mph; for changing their lives forever after this attempt. Their trip starts on 8th August 2004, in Seattle, Washington and ends on 8th August 2004, in Boston, Massachusetts. This documentary has a favorable reaction at screenings as well as film festival and also has achieved several awards.The progress of Caldwell is followed in the documentary, the way he rides the Segway in the United States while taking stops at various places for interacting with the people.
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10 MPH
GT – Western Canada
Zay Harding, the traveler of Globe Trekker once visits the western part of Canada. Western Canada is bigger landmass than the whole European Union which encapsulates the British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and Saskatchewan provinces. Such a big province of western Canada was a home to merely 9 million people.The epic journey of Zay starts from the Saskatchewan, canoes along the earlier home to the renowned Grey Owl of Canada, at the Prince Albert National Park. There he lived in one of the remote cabins which were alongside the beavers that he adopted. Later, after the death of the beavers, it was discovered that he was called as Archie Belaney, an Englishman. Kay then travels through a train to the south, athwart the Great Plains which are the flat lands called as the break basket of Canada.
Globe Trekker - The American Rockies
This film is a piece of widely appreciated series, the Globe Trekker of Ian Wright. The brave and avid trekker explores the distant places of United States. The passion to travel around further, makes him plan an odyssey to the South Dakota. Ian starts the trip from Badlands. His humorous gags and a witty approach of interacting with people help him know the history and culture of natives of Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. With the dawn, he approaches Black Hills, the paradise of wonderful tunnels and caves created by natural attrition since millions of years. This is also known as the ‘island of trees in a sea of grass’. Bear Butte, the worshiping place of Sioux, comes next on his agenda and film goes ahead portraying this holy terrain.