Endless Horizon: A Very Messy Motorcycle Journey Around the World
  "Riding a bike removes the need for clutter, toys, rubbish that other men have to take on holiday. If I want adrenaline, I'll rush a giddy overtake, not rent a jet ski."
The world through the eyes of Dan Walsh is never less than Technicolor and always uninhibited, rebellious, and on the edge. Not since the days of Ted Simon's Jupiter's Travels has one man embarked on such a crazed bike trek around the world.
"For me, Chile will always be South America's supermodel sister—very beautiful but too long, too skinny, and too expensive to ride, and despite the groovy exterior, unpleasantly right-wing underneath."
Dan has travelled the length and breadth of the world: in Africa, on his XT Desert Rat; in America, on a BMW F650GS Dakar. Along the way he's visited Buenos Aires, where "revolutionary" means the angry poor invading the presidential palace, not a really small phone that's also a camera. He's been mistaken for a bum in New York, been hammered by deadly Tequila in Mexico, contracted typhoid in a delapidated Bolivian hotel, visited the Most Beautiful Road in the World in Peru, and been kidnapped in Kenya.
"I get my bum pinched by a tranny, my pocket picked by a grafter and get a gun pulled on me by a one-eyed, one-armed midget who's upset 'cause I winked at him. These are the days that must happen to you."
Cynical but grudgingly hopeful and bitingly funny, Dan Walsh is the rightful heir to Ted Simon as the preeminent biker-rebel of our generation.
Table of Contents
- Africa 2000-2001
- London 2002-2003
- The Americas 2003-2006
- North America
- Central America
- South America
- Appendices
About the Author
In 2001 Dan Walsh departed London on an XT Desert Rat headed for Africa, travelling from Dakar to Chana to South Africa, then two years later, on to North and South America. His legendary Bike magazine columns about his travel experiences—lyrical, edgy, fraught with danger, despair and surreal highs and lows—have earned him a vast cult following and he has been labeled "the savior of motorcycle writing." Dan still contributes to the UK's Bike magazine, as well as Motorcyclist in the US, and he is still out on the road. This is his first book.
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