Even after I made it to the region, getting into Congo required two overland border crossings.
After my time in Haiti and the 13-hour overland journey between borders, I was happy to hole up for a while, do some running, catch up on all the email, and so on.
When I'm going to come back, I have no idea.' " He booked a ticket that took him to Atlanta, Rome and Cairo, then went overland across a border that had crumbled to Benghazi, the capital of opposition-held Libya.
These days, they travel in speed boats hired in Miami by relatives paying up to $10,000 a head for the trip.Cubans have also discovered a new route to freedom, crossing the sea to Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, then making their way overland to the border with the United States.
France lies just across the Bidassoa, a five-minute ferry ride away (or a 15-minute drive overland to the border), so it was easy to hop between countries at our whim; to lunch, say, in Biarritz and drive back to Spain along the scenic corniche carved into the steep hills facing the Atlantic.
He crossed the border overland through the Pyrenees and caught a bus in the Spanish side.
The overland trek across the border, often on foot or under cover of darkness, can be harrowing.
After making their way out of Africa or Asia, they often head to Latin America and then travel overland to the U.S. border.
Accompanied by her older sister Nisreen, she'd spent the previous weeks travelling overland from the Turkish/Syrian border to the coastal town of Bodrum, where they'd paid smugglers to take them on a dangerously overcrowded dinghy to the Greek island of Lesbos.
Another 40-vehicle convoy carrying fighters and weaponry traveled overland via the Habur border crossing in southeast Turkey.
