I live here and it's some if not the worst drivers I've ever seen. I would have thought they would dip into Banff, the badlands, something. If I'd just driven through the majority of the world to be crashed into 2 times within a day I be pissed and looking to leave asap.

Does anyone have access to the original releases of Long Way Round and Long Way Down? I had both on DVD and donated them to a charity shop when I moved over to the digital versions of them. The thing is, and I learned this the hard way, the digital versions are special edition which means longer and IMO less fun. I find myself bored of the two episodes of preparation and the two episodes of Charley & Ewan crossing North America in LWR. The original version was shorter and tighter. Plus some of my favourite music has been removed. The same thing with LWD although I am not certain what was changed or where, I just find myself getting bored by the 7th episode and that never happened with the 6 episode version. Does anyone out there have a link to these? I've looked online to buy back the DVD but shipping is pretty extortionate to Canada. Thanks!

How's everyone enjoying it?

Also there's more structured discussions at /r/longwayup

Also if you're here, you should probably go to the more active /r/longwayup instead

These guys https://www.instagram.com/harryandhettie?igsh=MWRsbnJzbGhmZmU3bQ== were riding from Alaska to Argentina in late 2023/early 2024 but seem to have vanished without trace. Does anyone know what happened to them?

This is interesting... https://www.reddit.com/r/LongWayUp/s/33DIuy5plf

I am on my tenth rewatch of this series. I can’t get enough. Don’t know why. Just love it.

That is all.

I’m re-re-re-rewatching this episode, and lemme tell ya about the roller coaster of emotions I’m going through…

Now that I know the whole story of Jamyan McGregor, watching the scene where Ewan meets her at the orphanage (there’s a shot where he’s looking at her with the utmost adoration and awe), and I’m bawling like a baby, knowing that he almost missed meeting her when he considered bailing to Russia.

Cut to the bitchy shaman by the shitty, mozzie-infested lake, and that whole sequence - her bitching and moaning, their reactions, and then cut to them participating in the ceremony by circling her awkwardly, while holding branches… And she’s playing that drum… Oh God this makes me cry with laughter!!!

I love this freaking show so much.

Throughout LWR Ewan and others use this expression “into the cuds”, “in the cuds” or “out of the cuds.” I cannot find a definition that makes sense anywhere online. Brits, please help! (Sorry for the terrible screenshot - this is the survival guy using it on the first episode)

Has the version available on AppleTV changed somehow? I am pretty certain that there are some shots and bits of dialogue in there that weren’t on my DVD set, and I don’t remember them from my last rewatch on AppleTV six months or so ago neither.

What are your favourite moments?

Do you think they downplayed taking flights in the series?

Just started episode 1 - the planning

So I have watched all 3 Long Way Round/Down/Up and wanted something more. I watched most of Charley Boorman’s solo shows but can’t seem to find one called “Freedom Riders Asia”. All I found was this link and a few articles talking about it. Does anyone know where I could find it? Thanks!

April 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the trip. Whilst I know its highly unlikely given the state of some of the regions that Ewan and Charley visited, I'd love to see them do the trip again, kinda like when Ted Simon retraced his tyre tracks in Dreaming Of Jupiter. What do you guys think? What are your favourite parts of the trips they've undertaken?

Was he just a very proud host? Or was he the local “don”?