Picked up this book the other day – its got a corresponding BBC TV series that has 10 episodes (i think). This has been an excellent book so far, i’m about 20% through – and I can’t stop reading it! I have to save some for this weekend though, since we’ll be camping.
I would definitely recommend this book for anyone that enjoys motorcycles and/or adventure.
Here’s the Amazon.com synopsis:
It started as a daydream. Poring over a map of the world at home one quiet Saturday afternoon, Ewan McGregor — acclaimed actor and self-confessed bike nut — noticed that it was possible to ride all the way round the world, with just one short hop across the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. It was a revelation he couldn’t get out of his head. So he picked up the phone and called his fellow actor-slash-biker friend Charley Boorman and told him it was time to hit the road….
Beginning in London, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia; across the Pacific to Alaska; then down through Canada all the way to New York. Long Way Round is the result of their four-month, 20,000-mile joyride. Featuring original diary entries, travel maps, mileage charts, and dozens of photographs, this is a freewheeling, fully charged, and uproariously entertaining book about two world-famous individuals who chose the road not taken…and made the journey worthwhile.
Writen in diary-entry type style you get to read from both Ewan’s and Charley’s point of view. Some parts have already had me sitting there with a big shit-eating grin on my face with people around me wondering what was wrong with me… and i’m barely into it!
Only a little over $10 from Amazon, its totally worth it.
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