Well this from the last Pope...
"Emilio, today I will say a prayer for you and your Black Princess. You both have my blessing.
Pope John Paul II, Vatican City, 1987 "
I got this off Amazon.com.
Book Description
Emilio Scotto recounts his world-record, decade-long motorcycle journey through virtually every country in the world. Photographs accompany his adventures, which begin in Scotto's native Argentina and include traveling Panama in the tumultuous time of Noriega; riding through Mexico in the midst of an earthquake; breaching the Iron Curtain; crossing the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie; being blessed by the Pope; set upon by cannibals in Sierra Leone; fleeing Somalia on a freighter; and ranging worldwide from Tunisia to Turkey, Petra to Afghanistan, Yugoslavia to Singapore.
Review
Cycle World, May 2007
“Motorcycle travel writer Emilio Scotto’s book The Longest Ride chronicles his amazing 10-year, 500,000-mile journey around the world on the 1980 Honda Gold Wing he dubbed ‘The Black Princess.’ In his native South America and almost everywhere else, Scotto took lots of compelling photos and tells even more compelling stories about the 279 countries and territories he visited.”
F650.com,
“If you are only going to read one book this year, it should be this one … I have just read the first few chapters, but I'm totally hooked. Scotto is a great story-teller ... I definitely recommend it.”
