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In 2005, motorcycle journalist Dan Walsh rode out of London on a Yamaha XT Desert Rat, headed for Africa. From Dakar to Ghana to South Africa, then on to North and South America, he kept his readers posted about his travels, along the way earning the label “the savior of motorcycle writing.” Whether he’s delivering judgments ("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.") or just describing another day on the road ("I get my bum pinched by a tranny, my pocket picked by a grifter and get a gun pulled on me by a one-eyed, one-armed midget who’s upset cause I winked at him.”), these reports from the gonzo frontier of motorcycle travel are never less than Technicolor, adrenaline-soaked, and coruscatingly funny.
Lyrical, edgy, fraught with danger, despair and surreal highs and lows--this is a travelogue like no other. Walsh’s postings take readers to Buenos Aires (where “revolutionary” means the angry poor invading the presidential palace, not a really small phone that’s also a camera) and across the sub-Saharan savannah (like riding across a piece of toast with a mouthful of crackers); they feature Walsh being mistaken for a bum in New York, bashed by deadly tequila in Mexico, contracting typhoid in a dilapidated Bolivian hotel, biking “The Most Beautiful Road in the World” in Peru, being kidnapped in Kenya and finding downtown Soweto about as threatening as Stockport. And again and again they reveal Dan Walsh as the rightful heir to Ted Simon as the pre-eminent biker-rebel of our generation.
- Sales Rank: #1187521 in Books
- Published on: 2009-02-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.41" h x 7.01" w x 8.90" l, 1.75 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
Review
Walsh's writing style is uniquely entertaining and he wastes no time sucking you in. The entire journey is a roller coaster ride of improbable food fortune layered with streaks of the worst life has to offer. What really hooked me, though, was getting to experience the story through someone that is my polar opposite. Where I would take the practical and carefully chosen approach, Walsh charges ahead, guns blazing with the mindset of a man who has nothign to lose and everything to gain. This book screams that sometimes it's better to let life happen to you, than the other way around. Often, a little luck will carry you farther than a lot of planning. If you are searching for an inspiring and entertaining read this spring then GET THIS BOOK! - Review by Daniel Vickers of www.adventuremotorcycleblog.net
This is the third 'round the world on a motorbike' I have read. By far the most entertaining and thought provoking of the lot. It does help to know a little British slang! Walsh in his own manner is right up there with Wm. Faulkner. Give us more. - Review from Ed in West Virginia
From the Inside Flap
“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 traveled the length and breadth of the world; in Africa, on his XT Desert Rat; in America, on a BMW F65OGS 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, hammered by deadly tequila in Mexico, contracted typhoid in a dilapidated 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 pre-eminent biker-rebel of our generation.
About the Author
In 2005 motorcycle journalist Dan Walsh departed Peterborough, UK, on a 650 BMW and headed for South America to become a biking drifter, pilgrim, and latter-day heir to Ted Simon. His legendary Bike Magazine columns about his travel experiences – lyrical, edgy, fraught with danger, despair and surreal highs and lows – have earned him a 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 is still out on the road. This is his first book.
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23 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Endless... spew
By Escéptico
When the US version of this book included the subtitle, A Very Messy Motorcycle Journal.... they were right.
The first few pages will tell you all you need to know about the writer's admitted lack of expertise and common sense. There is " ...burst-mattress XT600 dirt bike..." (see that license plate? the XT is by definition and manufacturer legal description not a dirt bike). Actually the book's marketing folks are not in the running for accuracy either, where they proclaim "Dan Walsh rode out of London on a Yamaha XT Desert Rat.." forgetting all the while to hire the fact-checker who might have told them that there is no such model, except in their imaginings.
And perhaps more revealingly, Walsh wonders aloud "... how fast you have to move to outrun stupidity." For those still wondering, Walsh did not even attempt to outrun stupidity. He merely distilled it and carried it, in industrial strength and volume, wherever he went. It's best to get these acknowledgments out in the open, and early on. Oh, yes, and remember that this book is a rehash of mostly previously published material. Though there is occasionally amusing and even creative writing, this book features a few too many repetitions of phrases that weren't particularly funny the first ten times, and attempts at some foreign phrases that are, well, he got the word order backwards.
Though Walsh's book is by no means in the same league as Chatwin's "In Patagonia," each has its own version of purely volitional messiness. Chatwin was a bit free and loose with certain of his facts, but nevertheless wrote a fine book that was well regarded even if the cognoscenti were well aware of his occasional tendency to invent. Of course, most readers take the factoids of In Patagonia as if they were true. Likewise, the uncritical folks -- those seeking mere entertainment -- will probably accept some of Walsh's representations as truthful. As an expounder of fact, Walsh is something of a failure; as a teller of tales, however, he is a bit of a qualified winner. He has his moments of lucidity. His description of the train hitting the van somewhere in central Africa will stay with you long after you've given the book to someone else.
We have the distinct impression that author Walsh was drunk most of the time during his travels, or just recovering from a binge, or about to fall over in front of another bar where he would spend several weeks forgetting where he left his bike. In true bad-biker form, he reveals his pride in abusing the women in his life. So this just might be your kind of book.
It is difficult to see how any responsible adult reviewer could compare Walsh to the likes of writers of the genre like Ted Simon or Bruce Chatwin. What Walsh writes seems to be an exercise in fingerpainting with his own spew and filth, in a predictably colourful manner. His disdain for fellow travelers with differing styles, better judgment, clean clothes, tendencies toward sobriety and decent health, moderate mechanical ability, and greater competence is rather clear. Walsh's selection of venues and vignettes reminds us of a man who glides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. Some find that charming.
For those expecting examples of Walsh's dubious scholarship, here is one: we see that he dismisses Chile as too right-wing, though he only briefly and superficially passed through a small part of the country, forgetting that the right-wing government left the country nearly twenty years before he got there. This observation (about the "too right-wing government") is presumably because he notes that drivers actually vote in national elections, stop at traffic lights, carry insurance, and behave in a manner almost consistent with those of the civilized nations. Or perhaps because the policies of the oh so terrible former administration resulted in something like 70 percent of Chileans owning their own homes? (not squalid enough for ya, Mr. Walsh?)
In his diatribe against "right-wing" Chile, Walsh was evidently blissfully (drunkenly?) unaware that both the Chilean government and the Presidenta elected in 2006 were distinctly socialist (the Presidenta herself was trained in communist East Germany, belongs to the same political party as the Marxist Allende, and the Chilean president before her was also a supporter of the earlier Marxist regime -- and this is a country that is too right-wing for Mister Walsh?). Never mind that a degree of Western-style economic success has provided Chileans with decent food and housing and drinking water, modern public health care and relatively safe working conditions, along with roadways better than those in Colorado. No, Walsh finds the country lacking in stereotypical Latin American squalor and thus unworthy of his attentions. In describing Chile's government and society, Walsh was well behind the times, evidently basing his bashing on preconceived notions and the observations of others writing about conditions that existed many years earlier. Note to publishers: unbiased scholarship, objectivity, good grammar, historical accuracy, and sober writing are not inconsistent with the normal travel genre.
Writer Walsh certainly gives hooligan motorcycle riders a bad name. He partially redeems himself by posing as the admitted prototype of the bad example. But there will always be that one clown in any population who wallows in ordure, wears silly rags on his head, and goes about a part of his life pretending to be some sort of latter-day pirate. Those fellows exist for distant viewing and our amusement, or even as a warning, but certainly not for serious emulation by responsible adults.
There is a certain subclass of "adventure" that is simply the inability to plan and execute a task intelligently, coherently, and competently. And so there should be a corresponding category of travel books dedicated to those writers best characterized by unwaveringly sloppy alcoholism, erroneous assumptions, abysmally poor preparation, flawed research, abuse of one's fellows, deliberately unhealthy pursuits, dubious journalistic skills, gratuitously foul language, and the endless horizons.... of bad judgment.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Walsh Fans Beware: This Is Just The U.S. Release of "These Are The Days"
By wen313
If you read Dan Walsh's "These Are The Days That Must Happen To You" you read this book. This is just the U.S. release re-titled "Endless Horizon" for some reason. I really wish Amazon had mentioned that someplace in the description. We got excited about the release of "Endless Horizon" thinking it was a second volume in a Walsh series (and that's why the cover art was the same). It is not a new book. It's the same book, different title. Now I have to go through the hassle of returning it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Good read
By Coop
This book, while not a literary masterpiece, was a fun read. Although his MO throughout the piece was constant (ride, drink, chase women, hangover, ride, repeat) if you read carefully you learn the book is more about the writer than the journey. The writing changes with his mentality, from exuberance to depression. If you're judgmental about the character of the writer you won't like this book. He's more of an anti-hero. Deeply flawed with his soul on his sleeve. He readily admits this and asks no forgiveness. I kinda like him.
Take it for what it is; a 'stream-of-consciousness' book about a guy and his war with himself.
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