Long Way Up

 

Blokes on Bikes

   To help you through these dark days, I have been providing you with reading recommendations. Here is a viewing one. I will spare you a lot of writing and provide links which you can watch to determine if you wish to devote time to about a dozen episodes of Long Way Up.
   Long Way Up is a series that you can watch on Apple TV+. It is a travelogue that takes you from the very bottom of South America to Los Angeles. The blokes are Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. The bikes are Harleys. The boys have done this before in Long Way Round (from London to New York) and Long Way Down (Scotland to South Africa) on BMWs and these shows were mainly seen on the BBC. I have not seen either of those, but I watched all of Long Way Up and recommend it.

  At this point, those of you not interested in guys riding motorcycles, should know that a lot of interesting scenery is to be seen in the 13,000 miles covered. The guys are not wankers and this is "reality TV" at its best, since most of it seems "real". The logistics are interesting, particularly since the motorcycles and the support vehicles are electric. The Harley-Davidson LiveWires are prototypes as are the Rivian pickups. The trip begins and ends in snow and there are not a lot of sockets along the way. 

Sources:

  For background reading there are Wikipedia entries for both gentlemen and for all of the series. To watch:

The website for the series. 

The Apple promo. 

The Harley LiveWire site. 

Rivian has just gone public. Watch here, a YouTube video of another 7,700 mile trip Rivians made on the TransAmerica Trail. 

The Bonus:

  You will know Ewan McGregor (even if it is only as Obi-Wan Kenobi), but Charley is also an actor. His earliest role was likely in Deliverance, as John Voight's son. His dad, John Boorman was the director. 

  If you are interested in a LiveWire, have a look: