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Charley Boorman and me? 6th RTW Ride 2 B In The Book
After considerable self-flagellation, hammering of credit cards and an advanced learning curve about the psychology of the lowest Americanized sub group of H. sapiens sapiens, ‘round the world ride # 6 is in the bag. Some of my ins, outs and learning can be found free, here www.rtwmotorcycleadventurerally.blogspot.com

Many “Thank you!” to the members of the HU community and friends that urged me on after having been abandoned in Cape Town. The pill of success after soldiering on alone tasted far better than the pill of failure, defeat, and throwing in the towel might have tasted had I been a loser. As I noted in some of my learning notes, “I would rather regret the things that I did than the things I didn’t do.”

Successfully completing this loop around the globe I agree with what Carl Stearns Clancy wrote after his record setting “First Motorcycle Ride Around The World 1912-1913,” in the book MOTORCYCLE ADVENTURER https://www.amazon.com/Motorcycle-Adventurer-Stearns-Motorcyclist-1912-1913/dp/1450221416
“It would be difficult to overestimate the educational value of such a tour as I have just completed, for I feel safe in saying that by no other means could I have obtained the broad insight into conditions in foreign countries that has resulted from my motorcycle journey.”

Mistaken for Charley Boorman, while passing through Southeast Asia, was an interesting part of the adventure. While the published news item said I was “flattered that (I was mistaken…) for that dashing English adventurer, of long ways down, round and back,” I did not say that. I thought that Boorman looked more like me than I him, although admittedly I’ve never met Mr. Boorman for comparative facial recognition. I do believe neither of us looked like the masked person in the newspaper article. The photograph below is from where the mistaken identity was made. Details of the origin of the misidentification can be found at the above referenced blog.

I doubt there will be an updated version or second edition of my earlier coffee table and ebook, DOWN AND OUT IN PATAGONIA, KAMCHATKA, AND TIMBUKTU http://bit.ly/1Q1hZ2O , which has also become known as HOW I BECAME A MOTORCYCLE ADVENTURE JUNKIE where my five earlier rtw journeys were recounted. However, a tome of a far wilder nature is in the works coupled with a film project.

Dr. Gregory Frazier
Chief, World Adventure Affairs Desk, CITY BIKE Magazine
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