Inflation drives us to think ahead: plan out grocery trips, buy in bulk, carpool. One young man had an unorthodox way of funding his summer road-trip across America as gas got more expensive: he constructed a life-size pear on his moped. 

Twenty-four-year-old Andrew Glubbey has 19,000 followers on his Instagram account, @glubbey. His profile has grown since the start of the road trip as he adventures in his self-built pear car from Florida to Washington State. 

“I’ve talked to a lot of people that are like, ‘I could never do that or I would never do that with that kind of thing’,” Glubbey tells me. “I think, in that way, people are living vicariously through this trip by saying, ‘Hey, I would never do it myself, but damn, I really want to.’” 

Glubbey comes from Merritt Island, Florida, and works as a sculptor. He makes sculptures from wood and metal, repurposing old scraps to create “something cool,” he says.

“I’m self-taught,” Glubbey explains. “I love messing around with power tools and screwing stuff together, and I think a lot of times........

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