Peter Egan is one of the most beloved voices in automotive and motorcycle journalism. In a warm, wide-ranging conversation that takes place inside his Wisconsin workshop, Egan reconnects with “Driven to Ride” host Mark Long to discuss his new book, “Landings in America,” a memoir meets travelogue that chronicles a six-week journey across the U.S. in a Piper Cub.

Egan shares stories of how he and his wife, Barb, navigated the skies in 1987 with paper maps, a handheld radio, and no GPS, landing in small towns, sleeping in motels, and soaking in the vastness of the country from 1,500 feet above. They avoided big cities in favor of grass airstrips, friendly strangers, and fly-ins, where fellow aviation enthusiasts gathered around their bright yellow aircraft.

Known for his decades-long career writing for Cycle World and Road & Track, Egan brings the same introspective charm and observational wit to this interview that made his magazine columns and features enduring favorites for readers and riders alike. While motorcycles only appear briefly in “Landings in America,” the spirit of adventure is deeply familiar.

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For the past 20 years, fast friends Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor have been wandering the globe on an eclectic mix of motorcycles. “Long Way Home,” the intrepid pair’s fourth and most recent television series, captures their journey through 17 European countries aboard a resurrected 1973 BMW R75/5 and a well-traveled 1974 Moto Guzzi Eldorado.

“There’s something wonderful about a big trip,” Londoner Boorman relates to host Mark Long on this episode of the “Driven to Ride” podcast. “Sometimes, it almost feels like you’re sort of on holiday and you don’t want the holiday to end. You’ve got that freedom of the open road, you’re carrying everything on the motorcycle that you need, and there you are, just going off.”

While some aspects of their adventures haven’t changed much since Boorman and McGregor set off on their inaugural 2004 trip—“two friends riding round the world together and, against the odds, realizing their dream”—the cameras used to record the experience, plus the advent of in-helmet communication, have revolutionized the process. But, as Boorman attests, it’s still escaping.

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Andrew Richardson has been the face of REALRIDER for more than a decade, but when he created the government-certified automatic crash-detection app, he didn’t even own a motorcycle. Richardson has since obtained his license and become an avid commuter and a weekend rider. He has even tested the app for exactly what it was designed to do: keep motorcyclists protected on the road.

“Thinking that everyone’s trying to kill you is always a good mindset when you’re on a motorcycle,” admits Richardson. Riding one chilly afternoon with his son and son-in-law in his native England, he was run off the road and found himself sprawled in a ditch. The tip over triggered the app on his phone. Being uninjured, he was able to deactivate the alert before an ambulance was summoned.

“Our technology is really designed for, you’re by yourself, you leave the road, nobody knows that you’ve had a crash,” he says. “We have this period of time where we wait for the crash to stop happening. Then, the system starts analyzing what’s going on.” Clearly, this potentially life-saving tech works. Take it from Richardson, who, as the expression goes, has been there and done that.

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