If there ever was a cultural touchstone that got more folks into adventure riding, it was Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's original Long Way 'Round documentary. It was, and still is, one of the most fun motorcycling pieces of art to ever be put to film, as the two friends took two BMW GS on a grand adventure circumnavigating the globe.
I still watch it every so often, and I can still recall the budding sense of "I want to do that one day" that it gave me when it launched nearly two decades ago.
And in the interim years, the two friends have rejoined for a handful of other adventures. They've done the Long Way Down which saw them leave Scotland for South Africa, and the Long Way Up, where the pair used a couple of prototype and heavily modified Harley-Davidson LiveWires—and a prototype Rivian—to travel from the southern tip of Argentina to the United States.
