But it’d also be about the greener future.
This ride, with two 50ish dads, would be about the adventure, the scenery, meeting and sampling new cultures and new cuisines. The hook? The Harleys are electric prototypes, and the trucks are Rivian electric pick-ups.
Such a trip killed Classic “Top Gear,” but Boorman and McGregor are such charmers you can’t imagine a Jeremy Clarkson-style international Argentine incident, complete with BBC coverup, this time round.įor their latest “Long Way,” the lads would be riding American metal - Harley-Davidson motorcycles, with Detroit-built custom trucks hauling the support team. So he and Boorman, fresh off a couple of hospital-stays due to bike accidents, took a pre-Pandemic ramble from Tierra del Fuego, on the bottom tip of South America, to Los Angeles, where McGregor now makes his home. McGregor told me as much when I interviewed him as his film “Salmon Fishing in Yemen” came out, back in 2011.īut circumstances changed, McGregor’s family life blew-up thanks to a very public affair with a co-star, and his turn in “Fargo” - where he met said co-star - gave him the luxury of another months-long odyssey.
“Long Way Up” is the third epic motorcycle trip/travelogue undertaken by avid cyclists and longtime actor friends Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman.Īfter “Long Way Round” (2004) took them around the world, across Europe, Siberia and North America, and “Long Way Down” (2007) saw them venture from Scotland to South Africa, they figured they’d never get around to one last super-long trip. But if you’ve got the bike, the time and the yen for “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” why not think big? The romance and endless possibilities of a motorcycle create many an armchair adventurer.
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