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Faint of heart?
I had lunch with my friend Dmitry today who told me about this Russian motorcyclist he ran into who just rode around the world over 100,000km. He had quite a few colorful stories to recount, involving biker gangs in Australia and being sliced up by machetes in Africa. Unfortunately I missed meeting him because this happened around August when I was gone from Seattle. He does have a blog though, although it’s in Russian, which I don’t suppose any of you read: http://www.filosof.md/route/. Clicking on the US flag appears to bring up an English version of the blog that someone appears to have translated: http://filosof.md//eng/. There’s just a few entries though, and the translation is rather sketchy. It’s a shame – it would have made for pretty entertaining reading.
If nothing else, watch this video of him stitching up his face in a hotel room with a needle, floss and pliers. I made it about halfway through before I started screaming. :P
Hi! Now that you are of the road I am back reading http://www.kccd.no/home_en.html. This is a round the world trip on 70 year old bikes. The trip started in’09 and still going. The guy who is writing the blog is so funny.
Check it out.
Where was my editor?
@Thomas: Thanks for the link! I checked it out briefly, but I don’t think I’m interested in following a bunch of guys who can mock other men by calling them “girlie-men”. That’s looking down on women at the same time as mocking a couple of guys who did a lot to made adventure riding popular. Yeah they had new bikes and a support crew, but they *rode* their bikes and finished the ride. If people want to go whine about it, fine. I don’t have much patience for them though.