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HORACE AND THE ROUGH STUFF FELLOWSHIP from infinite trails on Vimeo . is the story of three man, one dream and 80 years of cycling in Iceland… "Rough stuff begins where the tarmac ends" "If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm." Frank Lane What makes us itch? Itch to go out and search for the unknown? What sparks the idea to leave everything behind to cross a desert of black sand all alone? Why sleep under the stars rather than in the comfort of your home? Those were the questions i was asking myself when we finally left for Iceland, Europe’s Outpost in the Nort Atlantic, the last rock to settle on before the infinite ice. Hidden in an old newspaper we found the story of astronomer and stargazer Horace Dall who set out one day, packed a couple of his belongings and his best suit to make the first wheeled crossing of Europe’s greatest desert, Sprengisandur. A landscape so rough, raw and remote that it was used by NASA to train thei...