Actor-adventurers Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman motorcycle from Scotland to South Africa in this 10-part series. Part 1 covers the six months' worth of planning for the 15,000-mile, 85-day journey. Contingencies considered range from the bad roads to visa hassles and political unrest. (Sudan is on the route.) Then Ewan is hurt and Charley's wife gets sick, and Charley faces a police interrogation---at London's Gatwick Airport---en route to the departure point, John o' Groat's, Scotland.