Carla King is a San Francisco-based writer who specializes in motorcycle adventure travel. Her book American Borders is the story of her breakdowns in small towns all around the USA on a 10,000 kilometer, solo-circumnavigation of the United States on a Russian Ural sidecar motorcycle.
The book is based on a series of dispatches authored in 1995, which is the oldest online travelogue on the Internet. Continuing the realtime adventure series, she sent missives to the Internet during her 1998 journey from Beijing to the Tibetan border in the China Road dispatches in 1998 and 2007, from India on a Royal Enfield Bullet in 2000, Italy in 2001 on a Moto Guzzi, Around the Adriatic in 2004, and From the Alps to the Atlas in Europe and Morocco in 2009. You can find an index of these stories on the Motorcycle Misadventures site.
Carla started writing about travel in 1988 while she worked as a technical writer in Lyon, France. In 1993 she penned a mountain-biking guide to the Alpes-Maritimes, then left for a four-month bicycle trip through West Africa. Since then she's published stories about motorcycling, bicycling, kayaking, scuba diving, travel technology, and other misadventures in a variety of print and online magazines, and has been interviewed in many publications as well as on radio and television programs. She hosts an occasional Miss Adventuring podcast. Listen on the web.
You can listen to her Internet radio show, The Miss Adventuring Podcast, where she interviews people living creative, misadventurous lifestyles. Carla is also a member of the Wild Writing Women, a San Francisco Bay Area writing and publishing group.
Keep updated with Carla's adventures. Visit her website for an event schedule/calendar and to join her mailing list. You can also follow her on:
For an extended interview, check out this piece Urban Moto Magazine's April 2008 issue - click here or on the image below to download the pdf file.
