The first woman to drive around the world was a teenager in a Model T. Aloha Wanderwell (you guessed it--not her birth name, but that's a story for another time) had just turned sixteen when she abandoned her finishing school in 1922 to go off with a charismatic adventurer, Walter Wanderwell (not his birth name either) in his quest to drive around the world. She celebrated her eighteenth birthday in Vladivostok, after driving across Europe, Egypt, India, Malaysia, China and Manchuria years...