To celebrate his 60th birthday, Nebraskan Duane Hansen sat in an 846-pound pumpkin he named Berta and rode it on a 38-mile trip down the Missouri River, setting a new world record for the longest ride by pumpkin boat, according to the people at Guinness, the Washington Post reports.
So that’s it. That’s the story. A grown man crawled into a gourd and rowed the damn thing on a rather large river for 38 miles. And he’s not the first one to undertake such a journey, because the previous record was a 25-mile trip taken by Rick Swenson in 2016, spanning the North Dakota-Minnesota border.