Jupiter’s Travels – Ted Simon’s motorcycle odyssey around the world
Jupiter’s Travels tells the adventure of Ted Simon’s four year odyssey around the world
The best known of Ted Simons books. It tells the story of his 1973 odyssey, a four-year journey around the world on a Triumph motorcycle.
The first half of the journey takes the reader from Tunis to Capetown, then around South America from the tip of Brazil to the Argentine Pampas and from Chile north through Panama to California. If that is not enough then Ted goes down to Australia, and from Singapore overland to Europe through India, Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey.
Often referred too as the best motorcycle travel book ever written, one thing is certain , Jupiter’s Travels is so much more than just a motorcycling book. The book like the varying condition of the roads traveled in it is inspiring, funny and at times dips into melancholy. It shows us the strength and fragility of the world and of the people who inhabit it.