Long Way Down
Just saw Charlie at a bike show in Toronto. Him, Ewan and the entire crew are getting back together and doing another trip. Going from London-South Africa, the Long Way Down!
shareAny idea when they are going to start the trip?
2007, when I don't know. Charlie said after Ewan finnished filming his current project. He also said Ewan had adopted a Mongolian child shortly after the Long Way Round, I didn't realize that. Anyway, they are doing it for Unicef again and the two went to Africa already to kinda scope it out I guess.
http://www.unicef.org.uk/press/news_detail.asp?news_id=836
Most other links I have found for it are like this
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1869819,00.html
I am not sure where I read it, I read so much about motorcycle travel, but apparently after this one to Africa, they are going to do a South America trip.
I read that they will start at the northern tip of Scotland and ride to Cape Town via Italy, Tunisia, Libya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi and the Namib desert.
A third and final journey could be "Long Way UP', from Tierra del Fuego north through the Americas
A third and final journey could be "Long Way UP', from Tierra del Fuego north through the Americas.
As an American, I hope not. I found the episodes where they were in Canada and the US the least interesting. I think it is a combination of familiarity and the lack of any drama as getting across the US is a rather boring affair especially when compared to the true adventures in say, Mongolia.
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. - David Hume
I disagree. I live in California and I think Canada and the US really got short changed, being crammed into a single 45 minute episode that included the finale.
It was less interesting because practically nothing was shown and they were more interested in reaching New York on time. North America has plenty of interesting geography to see. I would love to see the giant sand dunes in Canada for example.
Traveling from almost one pole to another would be great sight to see!
Only problem is that driving the prairies is very boring, not much in the way of excitement except the wind. The mountains in Alberta/BC are great, they should have shown more of that, but instead they skimmed over it and appeared in Hungry Horse, so I agree we did get short changed. I rode across Canada last Summer and there are some really great roads, wildlife ect.
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