Last week I watched the DVD Long Way Round which documents the 2004 journey of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from London to New York on motorcycles, including driving over 18,000 miles through 12 countries and a seriously difficult stretch of road in Siberia called the Road of Bones. The documentary itself is very good, but also of interest to me were the logistics involved in planning a round the world adventure. For several months before the actual trip they had an office setup, lined up donations and sponsors, and worked out the final plans with a staff of at least a dozen people. I'm not sure of the production costs of the actual movie, but most information I could find about it says that it was a "low budget" production. Besides Ewan and Charley they had an additional camera man on motorcycle and two support vehicles carrying an additional camera man and the two producers. For much or the Russian portion of the trip they also had a Russian "fixer" to take care of problems and assist with translation and also a Russian doctor.
It's going to be a long road from this idea to re-create Russel Farnham's round the world journey to actual planning and implementing it. But what a wonderful challenge this will be.
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Good ideas.
To know history is to know where we have come from.....to recreat history is to know ourselves.
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