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SOUND ITINERARY: Burgess in
Peru.
Courtesy Drive Around the
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Adam burgess says he has
dreamed of driving around the world “since I was
10,” and now he’s nearly done it.
Burgess, MA ’02, is part of a nine-member crew
of Drive Around the World, a Los Gatos, Calif., nonprofit
hoping to raise $1 million for Parkinson’s disease
research. The group’s goal: stitch together overland
routes to carry them and their four Land Rovers across
four continents and more than 30,000 miles, raising
awareness and money along the way.
Burgess was part of the film crew that documented the
trip, which began in Sunnyvale last November. The team
drove to the tip of Argentina, shipped the vehicles
to Australia, drove across the Outback, sent the cars
to Singapore and as of August were heading north through
the interior of China. They expect to finish the Asian
leg in Kamchatka, Russia, then rejoin the journey in
Alaska and finish later this fall back in California.
Burgess, who earned a master’s in documentary
film and video production at Stanford, credits professor
Kristine Samuelson for inspiring him. “Although
my first job after graduation was building a veranda
over the sliding backdoor of her house, she always had
faith in my work,” he says.
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