Peruvian Lockdown!
With the police and military controlling all movement, how is the last Brit in Cusco coping? Jack Groves writes… Greetings from military-enforced lockdown in Peru!…
Bolivia – James Patterson (issue 29)
Advice is like bitter medicine. Even if it’s good for us, we don’t want to receive it. When I encountered north-bound travellers while motorcycling in…
Serious adventure on a not-so-serious bike
Those Bristol-based Adventurists are at it again. If you’re looking for something interesting to do on a motorbike then it doesn’t get much more exciting…
Patagonia – Kevin Machtelinckx (issue 25)
An early summer stillness filled the air as I made my way out of a sun-bleached, wooden hostería and onto the warm asphalt. The main…
Chile – Christophe Noel (issue 22)
Strong winds blowing off the glaciers below tossed the little plane around like a leaf on the breeze, but Vincent didn’t appear concerned. He gently…
‘Journey to the End of the World’ by Alfonse Palaima and Colin Evans
The book, like its title, is big and bold; a physically beautiful thing if you like books and especially glossy coffee-table ones. It’s a collaborative…
South America – Spencer Conway (Issue 18)
After successfully circumnavigating Africa through 34 countries and covering 55,345 kilometres in nine and a half months I am now attempting to circumnavigate South America….
‘Full Circle’ by Richard and Mopsa English
Good accounts of adventurous travel should be timeless. Well written, they create their own contemporary context within which they never age. They remain valid and…
‘Beads in the Headlight’ by Isabel Dyson
This book takes you on a wonderful trip around, up, down and sideways through the Americas. Isabel’s writing is light-hearted and flowing with wonderful account…
Colombia – Jeremy Kroeker (Issue 16)
The time between realizing that you will crash your motorcycle, and the actual crashing part, is a real bitch. It may only be a few…
‘Left beyond the horizon’ by Christopher Many
3 years travelling on a motorbike; a further 8 years RTW using an old Land Rover and now currently back on the road with his…
Ferry Service to resume around the ‘Darien Gap’?
It’s about 15 years since there was a regular ferry service between Panama and Colombia but that may be about to change. Before economic and…
Globebusters now offer short breaks in the Andes
GlobeBusters are introducing a series of two-week long fly-ride adventures designed for motorcyclists who do not have enough time for a full expedition, but still…
British rider wins 2nd stage of the ‘Dakar’
Riding for TEAM HRC, British rider Sam Sunderland has just won the Dakar’s second special stage, his first stage win of his Dakar Rally career….
Ted Simon’s new coffee table book
We will have a few copies of Ted Simon’s new book ‘Jupiter’s Travels In Camera‘ available at the Motorcycle Live Show. This glorious Hard-backed full-colour…
‘Triumph Around the World’ by Robbie Marshall
‘Triumph around the World’ could dispassionately (and errantly) be dismissed as the manifestation of a middle class, mid-life crisis.
South America – Pat Lewis (issue 6)
Pat Lewis recalls the literal and figurative highs and lows
‘The Scooter Diaries’ by Ronald Bowman
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Ride the world with Globebusters
If you want to ‘go global’ but can’t face it on your own…
Illuminating Bolivia
Perhaps it is the numbing effects of the coca tea (the perfect antidote to altitude sickness), or maybe it’s the lack of Latino and the…