Leon Logothetis’ around-the-world trip on Kindness One
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As of this writing, I have been on the road for 100 days, going around the world on a motorcycle trip that’s been supported by other people’s kindness.
Dec. 11, 2013
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When we last left this story, I was being held up at the Vietnamese border, where the border authorities wanted to impound my bright yellow motorcycle.
Dec. 5, 2013
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Everyone loves my big yellow motorcycle with a sidecar, the one I’m using in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
Dec. 3, 2013
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Sometimes, words aren’t enough to describe the emotions the seize you.
Dec. 2, 2013
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Here’s the thing about circumnavigating the globe on a journey that’s funded and fueled by kindness: You don’t always find comfort but you almost always encounter adventure -- and I have, almost every day of a trip that began Aug. 10 from L.A.
Nov. 30, 2013
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Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. -- Mother Teresa After my trip to the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan I wasn’t sure how I would react when I returned to India.
Nov. 11, 2013
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It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness. -- Charles Spurgeon Circumnavigating the globe from Los Angeles in a 1978 yellow motorcycle with a sidecar is not for the faint of heart.
Nov. 8, 2013
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My travels across the globe relying on the kindness of strangers with my trusted motorcycle, Kindness One, continue to amaze me.
Nov. 6, 2013
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“Never, ever give up.”
Oct. 17, 2013
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“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves -- finding themselves” --Andre Gide It’s quite humbling to think that I have already traveled from the fabled Hollywood sign in Los Angeles to the edge of Asia.
Oct. 14, 2013
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“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.” -- John Ruskin Murphy’s Law states that when something can go wrong, it will.
Oct. 9, 2013
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Oct. 4, 2013
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be -- Voltaire As I was trying to find a free place to stay at a hostel in Zagreb, Croatia, and had just been unceremoniously rejected, I trudged out to the courtyard and heard a familiar accent.
Sept. 17, 2013
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If music be the food of love, play on. -- William Shakespeare As I was walking through the cobbled streets of Aix en Provence in France, I was enchanted by a melody that hung in the air.
Sept. 10, 2013
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“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” -- Christopher Columbus It wasn’t easy finding a shipping company that would take me and my bright yellow Chang Jiang motorcycle and sidecar, dubbed Kindness One, across the Atlantic for free, but once I did, I was elated, then slightly worried about a 10-day journey across the vast Atlantic.
Sept. 4, 2013
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Traveling across America on Kindness One, my bright-yellow Chang Jiang motorcycle with the 750cc BMW engine, has not been easy.
Aug. 27, 2013
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“My religion is very simple.
Aug. 20, 2013
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“What we need is an army of the kind.”
Aug. 16, 2013
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“To travel is to take a journey into yourself” — Danny Kaye My dream of circumnavigating the globe on a vintage motorcycle began after I watched “The Motorcycle Diaries.”
Aug. 14, 2013
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Is Leon Logothetis compassionate or crazy—or both?
Aug. 9, 2013