{"id":183,"date":"2008-01-21T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T20:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/long-way-round\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T20:37:34","slug":"long-way-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/long-way-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Way Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got the DVDs for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwayround.com\">Long Way Round<\/a>, Ewan MacGregor and Charley Boorman&#8217;s 2004 round the world motorcycle trip.  They had filmed it and turned it into a show, which apparently aired on Bravo but I never saw it.  I had to order the DVDs from amazon.ca because I wasn&#8217;t finding them still available in the US for some reason (at least not the special edition with 10 episodes, as opposed to the original 7).  The whole series was fantastic.  I would recommend watching it even if you&#8217;re not particularly interested in motorcycles.  Just the whole traveling into remote parts of the world and meeting the people there angle is really interesting.  They had a cameraman, Claudio von Planta, on a third motorcycle with them, and two support vehicles traveling a few days behind them to meet up at borders and help with the documentation needed there for crossings.  The roads for probably 2\/3 of their trip were pretty much non-existent so you get to see some pretty rough off-roading as well.<\/p>\n<p>They actually ran into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jupitalia.com\/\">Ted Simon<\/a> in Mongolia &#8211; he&#8217;s the author of <u>Jupiter&#8217;s Travels<\/u>, about his riding round the world for 4 years on a Triumph back in the 1970s.  They worked with UNICEF for the trip and met up with children in different cities to spread awareness of UNICEF&#8217;s cause.  My favorite parts were when they stayed with Igor in Ukraine (episode 3) and when they traveled the Road of Bones in Siberia (episode 7).<\/p>\n<p>Last year they did another trip, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwaydown.com\">Long Way Down<\/a>, where they traveled from the tip of Scotland to the tip of South Africa.  I&#8217;ll probably pick up that DVD set soon to check out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got the DVDs for Long Way Round, Ewan MacGregor and Charley Boorman&#8217;s 2004 round the world motorcycle trip. They had filmed it and turned it into a show, which apparently aired on Bravo but I never saw it. I had to order the DVDs from amazon.ca because I wasn&#8217;t finding them still available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycles","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kribit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}