The Longest Ride My Ten-Year 500,000 Mile Motorcycle Journey

by Scotto, Emilio

• ISBN13: 9780760326329
• ISBN10: 0760326320
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-15
• Publisher: Motorbooks

Summary

For his eighth birthday, Emilio Scotto received a World Atlas. Promptly he announced his plan to make a route that would pass through all the countries of the world, a route he named BLUE ROAD ONE. When, some years later, he found himself astride a black 1100 Honda Gold Wing motorcycle, Blue Road One beckoned, and Scotto set off on a journey that would last more than a decade, take him virtually everywhere in the world, and land him in the Guinness Book of World Records. This is his story, a thrill ride that begins in his native Argentina, crosses Panama in the tumultuous time of Noriega, Mexico in the midst of an earthquake, and finds him broke in L.A. where, in a chance meeting, Muhammad Ali gives him fifty dollars and a signed book. Breaching the Iron Curtain, crossing the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie, being blessed by the Pope, set upon by cannibals in Sierra Leone, fleeing Somalia on a freighter, Scotto's adventures would be unbelievable if they weren't true. His tale of touring the world from Tunisia to Turkey, Petra to Afghanistan, Yugoslavia to Singapore, traveling miles enough to take him to the moon and back, is unlike any ever told. Come along, for the ride of a lifetime.

Author Biography

In 1985 Emilio Scotto set out from his home in Argentina on a decade-long motorcycle journey that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Guinea , West Africa , Bijagos Archipelago

In the Beginning

The Journey around the World Begins

Crossing the Tropic of Capricorn

The Wrath of God

Steel, Aluminum, and Bolts

The Amazon

Manaus

El Dorado

Soul of the Lowlands

Central America - Small Land , Big Hell

War along the Pan-American Highway

Gateway to the Past

The Land of the Big Hats

Into My First First World

On the UFOs Highway

Flying over the Atlantic

Third Continent- Europe

Sahara

Black Africa

Dakar

The Swamp Where the World Ends

Into theCovas

Trucking

Something to Forget

Liberia -The Lower Level of Hell

Congo

Down in the Dark

The Cameroon Train

Equatorial Guinea -And Macias Was God

Down with Malaria

Mongomo

The South of Africa

The East Coast of Black Africa

Mom basa

Somalia

War! Ground Zero

TheGobwein

Khartoum

Goodbye Africa

Reunion with the Angel

Marrying an Angel

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