If you want to take a long walk---and a patent guy

 

The longest road in the world to walk, is from Cape Town (South Africa) to Magadan (Russia).

No need for planes or boats, there are bridges. It's a 22,387 kilometers (13,911 miles) and it takes 4,492 hours to travel.

It would be 187 days walking nonstop, or 561 days walking 8 hours a day. Along the route, you pass through 17 countries, six time zones and all seasons of the year.

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In 1932, Richard B. Spikes received a patent for an automatic car gear

shift. Major companies welcomed his inventions. Its patent #1889,814.

   By the time he created the automatic safety brake in 1962, Spikes was losing his vision. To complete the device, he first created a drafting machine for blind designers. The machine would soon be used in almost
every school nationwide.
  

 These are other inventions by Richard B. Spikes: railroad semaphore (1906)

automatic car washer (1913)                                automobile directional signals (1913)

beer keg tap (1910)
self-locking rack for billiard cues (1910)
continuous contact trolley pole (1919)
combination milk bottle opener and cover (1926)
method and apparatus for obtaining average samples and temperature of tank liquids (1931)
automatic gear shift (1932)
transmission and shifting thereof (1933)
automatic shoe shine chair (1939)
multiple barrel machine gun (1940)
horizontally swinging barber chair (1950)
automatic safety brake (1962)