Book number six for this year was Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman.  I had to check the book out from the library after watching the DVD of their trip around the world on motorcyles.  I forget where I learned of their journey, but had to see it.

The DVD was interesting, but I was disappointed that they spent two hours out of ten on preparations for the trip.  And there were gaps in the DVD that kept me wondering what happened.  However, on the whole, the DVD was very entertaining, and of course, the book was better.  The book is always better.

In the book, Ewan and Charley take turns narrating the story.  (Of course, they had a ghost writer who is given credit in the front of the book.  In fact, I think that's the perfect way to write a book - have someone else do the grunt work for you.)

They left London on two BMW's to travel by land across Europe and Russia, then a short plane trip to Alaska, and on to New York.  The heart of the story was the hard part in Mongolia and Siberia.  The best part of all travel stories concerns the difficulties and set-backs.  But they met some very interesting people and saw beautiful places.  Makes me jealous of course.