{"id":12669,"date":"2021-04-07T07:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T14:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=12669"},"modified":"2021-04-07T07:51:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T14:51:16","slug":"tough-rides-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/04\/07\/tough-rides-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Rides: Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently wrote a review of Tough Rides China, and as it turns out, that was one of three rides Ryan Pyle did that are available on Amazon Prime.\u00a0 A couple of days ago I watched Tough Rides Brazil<\/a>, one of the other two.\u00a0 It was a six-part series about a circumnavigation around Brazil, and Ryan did this one without his brother Colin.<\/p>\n

Although I enjoyed it, I didn’t think Tough Rides China was as good as the Himalaya Calling series about going overland from Germany to India, and I said so in my earlier review.\u00a0 Tough Rides Brazil<\/a>, however, was stellar, and it was every bit the equal of Himalaya Calling.\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

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A gold-lined church in one of the mining towns in Brazil. Pyle took us into many worthy destinations on his Tough Rides Brazil<\/a> series.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You know, it’s a funny thing.\u00a0 I’ve been down on motorcycle adventure stories that focus too much on mysticism, philosophy, and other wordcount-inflating bullhockey and not enough on motorcycle riding (which is why I didn’t think much of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance but I loved Dave Barr’s Riding the Edge<\/a>).\u00a0 Somehow in Tough Rides Brazil<\/a>, Pyle focused only a bit on the riding and spent most of his time on the things he did in each of perhaps a dozen destinations on his 14,000 kilometer journey around Brazil, and it worked.\u00a0 I watched all six Tough Rides Brazil<\/a> episodes in a single sitting (it was that good).\u00a0 \u00a0It’s easy to do; they are each not that long and the story line and photography are superior.<\/p>\n