461 miles in 5 weeks........... (plus flights)
I wouldn't say it was the worst journey, but my god it was long!
Started out flying from Manchester to Vancouver. Easy enough. This was followed by a 2 day drive through Canada to a place called Prince Rupert - from there catching a ferry up the Inside Passage of Alaska. It was freezing sleeping on deck, but once we got to Skagway we got a bus to Whitehorse.
And this is where the real journey began.

A bunch of us from Yorkshire Schools Exploring Society were doing "Yukon '91", a canoe trip down the Yukon River.
This was 461 miles and involved camping out in the open with bears and stuff. Toilet? Pah, dig a hole in the ground with a trowel! Capsize on the river, lose all belongings. One night camping, one guy puked all over the girls tent and in my kit bag.
And, due to the fact that we had to use river water to cook with, we all got horrendous diaorrhea for 3 days. Then there was the night we had to pack up rapidly in the middel of the night and set off as there was a weird guy who we all thought was going to murder us.
Oh, and then there were the rapids that had to be navigated, with everyone capsizing.

Bloody great expedition to be honest, but it was the kind of journey that only the crazy and the young should do.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 13 Sep 2006, 18:34, Reply)