'I'm traveling thousands of miles to LA without catching a single flight — one moment was surreal'

A antheral acceptable disconnected from Marseille, France, successful April with a extremity to question astir the satellite successful an eco-friendly mode and without getting connected a azygous level — his travel has seen him thrust connected a cargo vessel

An adventurous psyche is embarking connected the travel of a beingness arsenic helium travels from France to Los Angeles but without catching a azygous formation – adjacent managing to snag a thrust connected an operational cargo vessel.

Enzo Terranova, 24, took disconnected from Marseille successful April and has acceptable himself the ambitious people of circumnavigating the globe successful a sustainable manner – eschewing aerial question entirely.

Enzo's voyage has to day included thumbing lifts crossed Europe, embarking connected the epic Trans-Siberian Railway, and mounting up campy successful the immense expanse of the Gobi Desert. The imaginable of marine transition was indispensable yet elusive for Enzo until the CEO of a starring French shipping steadfast got upwind of his quest and offered a helping hand.

Currently biding his clip successful Saigon, Vietnam, Enzo is each acceptable to committee his adjacent maritime transport, with sights acceptable connected Halifax, Canada. Once ashore, the hitchhiking limb of his travel volition pb him to his last destination, Los Angeles. Hailing from Fos-sur-Mer, France, the globetrotter expressed his philosophical presumption connected the journey: "This travel has been astir rediscovering the world astatine a quality pace. I wanted to debar flying, chiefly for biology reasons, but besides to clasp the quality of slowness."

He said: "That's wherefore I didn't spell consecutive crossed the North Atlantic from France to the states, due to the fact that I wanted to marque the travel last. Moreover, it holds a idiosyncratic value for him, allowing him to show self-reliance: "It’s besides profoundly idiosyncratic arsenic it has go a mode to beryllium to myself that I tin flooded immoderate challenge."

This intrepid traveller has forged his way from 1 European federation to different earlier continuing connected the fabled Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Irkutsk, conscionable supra Mongolia. Summing up his odyssey, Enzo confides: "Every measurement has been an affectional rollercoaster. I’ve crossed Europe hitchhiking, going done Germany, Poland and Belarus earlier grabbing the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow.

"I past arrived successful Irkutsk which is close supra Mongolia, truthful I travelled southbound and camped successful the Gobi Desert. I’ll ne'er hide surviving a sandstorm successful the Gobi Desert, wherever I could hardly spot oregon breathe."

Enzo past travelled further southbound done China, chiefly connected overnight 'standing trains' and successful Shanghai helium realised helium would request to question by vessel to America. After a French writer published a portion connected Enzo's journey, helium received a WhatsApp connection from Rodolphe Saadé's office, CEO of French shipping institution CMA CGM, saying he'd lend the traveller a hand.

Enzo boarded the CMA CGM cargo vessel from Nagoya, Japan, to Saigon, Vietnam, connected November 4 and became the lone rider to question connected these ships successful 2024. Enzo said: "Four months into the travel I made it to Shanghai, China, which is wherever I realised I would request a vessel to truly determination forward.

"I started knocking connected the doors of the maritime giants similar Maersk, CMA CGM and Costco Shipping. One by one, those doors closed. Every institution told maine it was nary longer possible, that post-Covid information measures had enactment an extremity to specified voyages.

"Then, portion I was successful a Muay Thai boxing campy successful Thailand, I was contacted by a writer from the section French paper La Provence who wanted to constitute an nonfiction astir my adventure."

His clip connected the vessel was filled with memorable experiences, including enjoying a blow-up swimming excavation with a breathtaking view. Enzo recalled: "A fewer days into being connected the ship, immoderate of the unit acceptable up an inflatable excavation astatine the backmost of the vessel.

"They invited maine implicit and I spent clip hanging retired with the Indonesian and Burmese guys who had blown it up. What blew my caput was that conscionable the time before, this spot was occupied by towering containers. Seeing a excavation abruptly look successful its spot was surreal. It was a infinitesimal of axenic joyousness successful the mediate of the immense ocean."

The cargo vessel took Enzo to Saigon, wherever helium is presently waiting for different cargo vessel to instrumentality him to Halifax, Canada. Once successful Canada, helium plans to hitchhike 3,728 miles to Los Angeles. Enzo said: "My travel is acold from implicit but I already consciousness transformed."