On the way to the stool (16 photos)

Someone could take the view that in order to travel, especially long-distance necessarily need the money. But there are people who own example proved the opposite.

Once, in 2005, Kiev filmmaker Leonid Kanter sad talked "for life" with friends, sitting in the kitchen. And I decided: "I close my office, throw everything and leaving to the ocean." And then looked at the stool and said: "That's right from this stool and go!" After three expeditions stools are in the Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans. There was only a quiet, and it will go to him in the spring of 2010 five teams from different countries: Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Belarus, as well as a joint team Schengen countries - Poland, France and Lithuania.




1) Now this is a project of international scale "from the stool across continents" with one purpose - acquaintance with the world and people of different nationalities. Without money, hitchhiking, earning a food street performances, they will go to Cape Horn through Russia from the West to the East, North and South America, will visit Kazakhstan, Altai, Kamchatka, Chukotka, Japan, Alaska, Canada, USA, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.



2) October 2 in preparation for the Fourth Expedition, launched "The first international race on a stool." At the same time from Moscow, Kiev and Nantes team hitchhikers with stools will get to the art festival in Gomel. Russian stage race started from the monument to the first stool of the Russian Land, which is in the Museum at the Taganka street furniture.



3) Each team for 2 people and one stool, marked with different colors. If it is white, then it can only vote sitting. If the green, only holding it in his hands. Blue - standing on it. Red - standing on it together. On a stool without a marker can vote however you want. Stool can not hide, like paying money for travel - it is the principle of all races hitchhiking. When two or more teams, and it happens often - all go the same route, they must exchange stools.



4) After the official part of the interview, photographing, filming and drawing stools, the team went on the subway to the start - Kutuzov Avenue. TV channels and reporters have already withdrawn their stories, and together with the participants went just me. In the picture - "Slavic Boulevard". Hitch Show all voting options: sitting, standing, holding a.



5) Leonid luckier all his stool without a marker - a voice as you want



6) The attempt



7) Professional! A few minutes of waiting, and the girl Matiz takes away the first team.



8) Then I decide to watch the most ridiculous job.



9) stops no one is going.



10) Half an hour later they change.



11) Catch up MKAD: "We would just go out of town, but already there easier.» - & Quot; - And how do you explain that without the money go? & Quot; - & Quot; - And we can see! & Quot;



12) It took another half hour. No smiles, no waving active and personal appeal to each machine can not touch the hearts of drivers traveling this Friday night at the cottage. They too can understand - ahead of them on the cork Minke, rainy weekends and mother-in-law in the cabin. In the course is a last resort - a red handkerchief.



13) A further half hour. Good luck, at least someone stopped!



14) And bummer ...



15) The girls decide to go to the gas station.



16) Under the green roof, gas stations, they, though not the first time, but the driver of the Lexus ohmurili. "And that is not caught on the road?" - "The rules written on the gas stations can be caught." - "But you do not stand on a stool?" - "And about the stools at gas stations there is nothing written!»

Still, these people are crazy. No family, work, children, career. Disappear for months, sleeping in the truck cab, do not know where to wash and, sorry, go to the toilet ... But seeing the trailers of movies filmed, something inside starts to ask for them.