Two 29-year-old Florida women who have been best friends since Kindergarten embarked on a 500-mile journey together, and not by way of automobiles or other traditional forms of transportation, but rather motorized toy cars.
Cassie Aran and Lauren Lee have been doing challenges and documenting them on social media for years, including traveling 45 miles in Heelys and kayaking in a cheap inflatable kayak to an island in Tampa Bay, but this time they wanted to do the “next big thing.”
The women initially planned to break the Guinness World Record for the longest journey in a toy car by driving down the coast of Florida from Jacksonville to Key West.
“We wanted to do something bigger than anything we’ve ever done,” Aran told USA TODAY. “We’ve been best friends since Kindergarten so we’ve done a lot of crazy stuff together, but we wanted to do something just a little bit bigger.”
Their TikTok videos documenting their road trip have amassed hundreds of thousands of views.