{"id":2138,"date":"2019-01-21T07:26:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2019-01-21T07:50:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:50:29","slug":"yawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/01\/21\/yawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Yawn…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Again? \u00a0 Please…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So I guess Charley and Ewan are planning another ride.\u00a0 I suppose that’s a good thing, even though I thought the first ones were kind of contrived. I mean, really, you have two rich kids riding around the world on their own with corporate sponsorship, followed by a caravan of chase vehicles, spare parts, tool chests, mechanics, and camera crews.\u00a0 Two dilettantes confusing their income with their abilities, making a movie, complete with photos like the one above vaguely suggesting a combat mission somewhere in the mountains of Afghanistan. \u00a0Give me a break.\u00a0 Maybe I’m being hypocritical; after all, I sort of did the same thing on the Western America Adventure Tour and the China ride.\u00a0 We even had a chase vehicle on both of those rides, too, although I managed to convince myself that chase vehicles are a net negative and I never used them again.<\/p>\n

You want to read a real adventure story?\u00a0 Turn to my all-time favorite…the story of Dave Barr\u2019s solo ride around the world.<\/p>\n

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Dave Barr in the hills above Lake Isabella, photographed by yours truly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dave Barr is a guy who lost both legs to a landmine while fighting in Africa. Undeterred and unbroken, after a lengthy recovery he finished out his enlistment, came home, put an electric starter on his beat up old \u201972 Harley (which already had a hundred thousand miles on the clock), and with no sponsorship, no chase vehicle, no film crew, and nothing other than a strong will, Barr spent the next four years riding around the world. He\u2019d ride a bit, run out of money, find a job wherever he was, work a bit more, and get back on the bike. That, my friends, is a real adventure, and you can read about it in Riding the Edge<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Trust me on this: Riding the Edge<\/em><\/a> is infinitely better than the long way whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I guess Charley and Ewan are planning another ride.\u00a0 I suppose that’s a good thing, even though I thought the first ones were kind of contrived. I mean, really, you have two rich kids riding around the world on their own with corporate sponsorship, followed by a caravan of chase vehicles, spare parts, tool … Continue reading “Yawn…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[235,89,1],"tags":[505,506],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","category-uncategorized","tag-dave-barr","tag-riding-the-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}