There's also that thread about the Belgian couple who drove across the Congo:

https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ...

I call these kinds of forum threads "afternoon destroyers". It would be fun to weaponize them into a whole organized link page.

This is amazing. 10 minutes in I finally reached the entry labeled "Day 2" and closed the window out of self-defense. I'm going to send this link to annoying customer support clients to buy myself time.

Yeah, or create a CAPTCHA that is something like "what transmission components did this car need replaced before reaching Kinshasa" and hide your Tier 1 support reps behind it.