Accompanied by his dog, a 44-year-old man has embarked upon a journey that has included ridinghis lawn mower for the last two years. Paul Woods travels by day and sleeps in a tent at night and he plans to reach Virginia from Alaska at the speed of 15 mph.

The Herald Journal of Logan quotes him as saying. "You've got to be pretty strange and pretty weird to be driving a tractor mower across country." Recently he took a break in the parking lot of Beaver Mountain ski resort, 107 miles north of Salt Lake City, near the Idaho border.

Woods, accompanied by his dog Yada left Alaska in 2005 and has been riding his mower ever since. Some generous pickup drivers have also hoisted his vehicle in the back of their truck.

However, his vehicle isn't very apt for driving such a long journey and Woods claims to have spent more time fixing it than driving it.