Lewis and Clark, eat your heart out.
Walking across an entire country may sound like a feat relegated to the intrepid explorers of yesteryear.
However, Hudson and Emily Crider managed to cross the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu on foot in less than a minute – because it’s so tiny.
“Walking through this place took me less time than walking from my car to Target,” Emily wrote in an Instagram video detailing her and her husband’s literal run.
The Pennsylvania natives — who go by @hudsonandemily on social media and boast over 277,000 followers — have made it their mission to visit every place on Earth.
It’s a pilgrimage they’ve almost completed, having ticked off 183 of the 195 spots on their list.
For the duo’s 183rd international tour stop, they went to the idyllic island of Tuvalu, which Emily describes on camera as possibly “the least visited place in the world”.
This patch of land is also super small, with less than 12,000 people and 10 square miles in size — less than half the area of Manhattan, Fox News reported.
Best of all, the Tuvalu is only 66 meters wide in some sections, which allowed the Criders to cross it in less than a minute in New York, at a clip.
“Now this should only have been done by the pros,” Emily joked in the clip, saying it requires intense preparation, serious hydration and the best of the best foods.
Accompanying footage showed her other half running shirtless alongside her – with water and Oreos in tow, as if preparing for a marathon.
It was then that she discovered the nature of their so-called earthly walk for centuries.
“In 30 seconds, you can walk across the country…we did it,” exclaimed the world traveler, before jumping onto the beach marking the end of their “epic” journey.
Criders noted in another video that it only takes about 25 minutes to drive from one end of the island to the other – a journey best experienced by scooter, by Emily.
And while this leisurely stroll may seem like a social media scam, Emily insisted that Tuvalu is a truly “beautiful” country with an incredible population.
“Tuvaluns are super friendly,” the globetrotter confessed in the clip.
“The most interesting thing is that every night hundreds of people come out to the airstrip to play football, volleyball and ‘te ano’, a local Tuvaluan sport.”
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