article_snippet: Modes of transport have varied.
article_snippet: Podell explains that Podell's travelled by 'ancient Third World airplanes; leaky, overloaded foreign ferries; broken-down, jam-packed bush taxis driven on rutted roads at 100 mph by wild kids who never passed a driving test; pole-pushed canoes loaded with 40 people and 20 sheep.'
article_snippet: Podell's ridden atop a cotton truck in Uzbekistan, camels, donkeys, horses, elephants, rickshaws, carts, wheelbarrows, and tuk-tks, as well as 'Motorcycles,  catamarans, hydrofoils, dugout canoes and the Queen Mary.
article_snippet: In short, almost anything that transports people, except an ambulance, thank God.'
article_snippet: Podelltravelled by 'ancient Third World airplanes; leaky, overloaded foreign ferries; broken-down, jam-packed bush taxis driven on rutted roads at 100 mph by wild kids who never passed a driving test; pole-pushed canoes loaded with 40 people and 20 sheep.'
highlights_snippet: The adventurer has travelled by leaky, overloaded foreign ferries, elephant, dugout canoes, carts and wheelbarrow .