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Go Big Or Go Home: Round the World Edition We quit our jobs to go exploring before we are too old to hike up mountains and mountain bike down volcanoes. We may be a little crazy but we like it that way!

Czech Republic

Photos along the way of the Iron Curtain show the various ways individuals tried to cross. This appeared to be a homemade scuba suit.

CZECH REPUBLIC | Tuesday, 29 August 2017 | Views [226]

Photos along the way of the Iron Curtain show the various ways individuals tried to cross. This appeared to be a homemade scuba suit.

The biking tour follows the Iron Curtain. Up until the mid 1960's, 10,000 volts of electricity flowed through the fences. 390 people died between 1948 and 1989 on the Czechoslovakia side of the border trying to cross and 654 border guards died although only 10 died from conflicts from border violators. The others died from suicide, electrocution, drowning or accidents with guns. The Iron Curtain stretched 7,250 km from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea and this section of the Iron Curtain in Clzov is the only preserved section in the Czech Republic.

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One of several memorials along the bike trail.

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