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It was mentioned as a book that inspired Ewan McGregor to take his motorcycle trips around the world, detailing a journalist's journey across the globe on a Triumph motorcycle.
So I read this book written by Ted Simon who wrote a beautiful book called Jupiter's Travels in the 70s and he was a journalist, I think for the Sunday Times and he decided he wanted to travel the wor...
— Episode: “Ewan McGregor”
Episode: “Ewan McGregor”
It was mentioned as a book that inspired Ewan McGregor to take his motorcycle trips around the world, detailing a journalist's journey across the globe on a Triumph motorcycle.
So I read this book written by Ted Simon who wrote a beautiful book called Jupiter's Travels in the 70s and he was a journalist, I think for the Sunday Times and he decided he wanted to travel the world and he wasn't a biker but he just thought that's the best way to see the world and he's right, it really is the best way.
So he rode this, he got a Triumph and he rode around the world and it took him four and a half years and his book started, he starts like three and a half years in and he's run out of petrol and he's sitting underneath a tree in India somewhere and his bike's propped up there because he's got no gas and he just said, I'm sitting here safe in the knowledge that someone will come and help and that's sort of how the book starts and it had taken him three years to realize that that was a truth, you know.