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How Slow Can You Go?

Fiona King and Ed Gillespie with a guide, on horseback in Terelj, Mongolia.

Courtesy of Ed Gillespie

Ed Gillespie told us about his low-carbon, slow travel tour de monde. I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one who feels like flying can be, well...overindulgent and wasteful.

A few years ago, I was hopping a plane every chance I got: Weekends in Colorado, Ireland and a quick jaunt to northern Vermont. Then I took a long flight and stayed put: Three months in rural Senegal. Not a lot of quick transportation options there...I got around in shared taxis (seating room tight; windows optional), horse-drawn carts and plain-old walking, like the locals.

I looked like a tourist, but I didn't feel like one...until I headed to the airport to come home.

Here's what Ed Gillespie had to say in an interview with Rachel Martin.

How do you like to hit the road -- fast, slow, somewhere in between?

Laura Silver

2:25 PM ET | 03-28-2008 | permalink

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Mongolia by horse. One thing I have sworn to do before I die.

Sent by Sarah Goodyear | 9:36 PM ET | 03-31-2008

being a frequent flyer and driver, i much prefer taking a car across country than a plane. there is so much more to be enjoyed!

also sailboats > motorboats.

liked the story! great interview!

Sent by jurrel | 1:21 PM ET | 04-07-2008

Bicycle. I have riden through the tundras of the Yukon, The borel forests of British Columbia, The plains of Alberta and the mountains of Washington. I have not driven since 2001 getting everywhere by bike, and I mean everywhere..

Sent by Tim | 4:49 PM ET | 06-12-2008

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