So a couple years ago I watched the BBC television series Long Way Round and as soon as I got my paperbackswap account I added the book about the journey to my wishlist. For anyone that doesn't yet know about the series, it is the journeys of Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman as they ride their BMW 1150cc motorcycles around the world...the long way! There route starts in London, through the chunnel to Paris through Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia then the Ukraine. This is where the adventure begins and the pavement stops. Next comes Kazakhstan then Russia, all the way across Mongolia, back into Russia just in time to hit Siberia and the Road of Bones. From there they ship there bikes across the Bering Straight and Ride from Alaska to New York. RIDICULOUS. All of that in 3 months.
I really thought that the book would be a bore now that I had seen the television show, but it wasn't. There was a ton of material that couldn't fit into 6 hours of programming. Some because it didn't make good TV and some because it wouldn't make appropriate TV. Boys will be boys, so you can use your imagination. Any way, this isn;t as much a review as it is an encouragement to get out and see the world. These two guys followed this trip up with a trip from the northern tip of Scotland to the southern tip of Africa. Check this stuff out, it is very entertaining and inspiring too.
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