Last October, Xavier Theriault accomplished his goal of seeing the Arctic Ocean with his own eyes.
And he did it by driving more than 16,000 kilometres from Halifax to Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., in a car that's more than twice as old as he is.
From July 4 to Oct. 10 of last year, the 23-year-old from Dieppe spent nearly 100 days on a cross-country journey behind the wheel of his 1969 Volvo 144.