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1. Desert Sun, The (Palm Springs, CA) - April 15, 2006 length: 966 words
Around the world Save this Article
- Palm Springs man gets a two-year crash lesson in culture By Richard Guzman The Desert Sun He took off alone from Palm Springs on a F-650 BMW Dakar motorcycle bound for a trip around the world almost two years ago.Although he crossed desolate landscapes, lifeless deserts and isolated mountains with nothing but his bike, camera and a laptop to document his adventure, Palm Springs resident Glen Heggstad was never really alone."The hardest thing about this was saying...
2. Desert Sun, The (Palm Springs, CA) - June 6, 2004 length: 1521 words
Motorcyclist is on the road again Save this Article
- Glance: Follow that biker To follow Heggstad's adventure, log on to www.strikingviking.net Meet him What: Glen Heggstad will sign copies of his book "Two Wheels Through Terror: Diary of a South American Motorcycle Odyssey"When: 7-10 p.m. June 17, during VillageFest Where: The Kickstand Grill and Bar on the corner of Amado Road and N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs Glen Heggstad plans a trip around the world on his bike By Richard...
3. Independent on Sunday, The (London, England) - March 24, 2002 length: 2191 words
Independent on Sunday: TRAVEL ETC: THE CROSS AND THE COLLARBONE Save this Article
- Risk management on a trip like mine still seems to me to be a largely futile endeavour. The expected dangers hardly ever materialise, and there's no way to prepare for the others. In any case, I learned many years ago that the odds in our favour are vastly higher than we imagine.A modicum of fear is a useful preservative, but I try not to let it affect my behaviour. Sometimes, though, I fail. Even in the Seventies, Colombia's reputation for theft and violence...
4. Independent on Sunday, The (London, England) - January 13, 2002 length: 1818 words
Independent on Sunday: Travel Etc: UNEASY RIDER Save this Article
- On Christmas Eve, at this small and pleasant hotel in Quito, two Ecuadorean men checked in. Apparently they spent most of the evening playing pool before going to bed. At three in the morning they came down from their rooms with guns, tied up the night watchman and rather gratuitously beat him, stole what money they could find, took the hotel computers and, as a last-minute inspiration, made off with the balls from the pool table.I heard about this from Maurice Engels, a long-time Paris...
5. Desert Sun, The (Palm Springs, CA) - December 27, 2001 length: 862 words
Valley judo teacher refuses to let kidnapping interrupt odyssey Save this Article
- Palm Springs motorcyclist held captive in Colombia By Kimberly Trone The Desert Sun What turned out to be a "bump in the road" during Glen Heggstad's motorcycle trip to the tip of South America might have become a dead end had it not been for a Christmas truce between guerrilla soldiers and the Colombian government.Heggstad, 49, was taken hostage by armed fighters for the National Liberation Army on Nov. 6 as he traveled a mountain road between...
6. Houston Chronicle - December 16, 2001 length: 583 words
Dangerous detour: Rebels terrified U.S. biker Save this Article
- BOGOTA, Colombia - Former Hell's Angel Glenn Heggstad, a self-styled "outlaw on the edge," was looking for danger on a solo motorcycle trip through Latin America. He says he found plenty of it in Colombia, where leftist guerrillas took him hostage and gave him the scare of his life. Days after being freed in the mountains, the 49-year-old judo instructor from Palm Springs, Calif., is holed up in a Bogota hotel - planning the next leg of his journey...
7. THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - December 13, 2001 length: 557 words
Freed biker undiscouraged by ordeal - Kidnap victim determined to complete trek Save this Article
- Undeterred by five weeks of harrowing captivity at the hands of leftist Colombian guerrillas and the efforts of two governments to persuade him to go home, Palm Springs martial arts expert Glen Heggstad says he is pressing southward to Tierra del Fuego -- as soon as he gets a new motorcycle. Heggstad, 50, a strapping former Hells Angel who stands 6-foot-4 and weighed 225 pounds before his capture, said he lost 40 pounds because of scanty rations and endless marching during what he...
8. THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - December 11, 2001 length: 539 words
Kidnap victim from Palm Springs released in Colombia - Judo instructor taken by guerrillas early last month Save this Article
- A martial arts expert from Palm Springs, kidnapped by leftist guerrillas in Colombia and released after a month's captivity, was unhurt and will depart for home Thursday, according to diplomatic officials. Glen Heggstad, a professional judo and fighting instructor, was captured by the National Liberation Army on Nov. 4 while riding his Kawasaki 650 motorcycle on a mountain road between Medellin and Bogota. Heggstad, 50, had been on the road since Oct. 1 and was...
