Copyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

Actor and motorcycling enthusiast Ewan McGregor and his best friend, and actor, Charley Boorman will be completing “the realization of a dream,” a three-month, 20,000-mile transcontinental motorcycle tour, July 29, 2004, with a media event in New York City’s Battery Park, according to a press release.

The trip took the men through Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, Alaska, Canada and the northern United States. The friends kept a record of their adventure with hand-held and bike-mounted cameras (which will become a Bravo channel television program, to be aired October 28 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time) and with still cameras and personal journals (which will be turned into a book). The television program and the book will share the title “Long Way Round.”

McGregor narrated the MotoGP film “Faster,” and has attended several motorcycle road races, from MotoGP events to the AMA/World Superbike round at Laguna Seca.