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 u201cthe savior of motorcycle writing.u201d Dan still contributes to the UKu2019s Bike Magazine, as well as Motorcyclist in the US, and is still out on the road.