Are people on here really the target audience?

I know I aren't. Other people's holiday videos are rarely of interest. There is no "OMG, they crossed a border into abroad and must now surely die/ be thrown into the black hole of Calcutta/be made to drink with fruit in it" factor.

On other forums where two weeks in Brittany or a Welsh road with gates causes NASA levels of preparation, she is popular. On that basis I'd say she's doing it well.

If you should be pleased at inventing a soap opera for 60 year old men who ride to drink coffee with like minded fellows, I hope she doesn't care who watches and enjoys the money it generates without it ruining her trip.

Andy

Very droll

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If there is a target audience I might be in it, I'm not able to travel to remote places / for long periods and how she goes about her travels is how I'd like to think I would too if given the opportunity, so I like to dip in and enjoy it vicariously

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Thanks to our moderator Tim Cullis for doing a good job taking some posts off here in this thread. To fall to such a low level to call persons who have said something positive about IB for «fanboys» is beyond mature behaviour…..

I think IB is great! Especially her filming and video editing skills are fantastic when you know she is completely alone filming and editing. And she has made 3 episodes of 20-30 minutes pr week for years! Thats a fantastic achivement!

I also like the fact that she rides more off the beaten track than 95 % of other travellers and I have met and seen. I also like the fact that she interact quite a bit with the locals and even seek out ethnical minorities and get to hear their stories and share them with her viewers. Not many travellers do that.

Also she got a profession (geology) that is at times very useful and she explains many an odd things from a geologist point of view. I find that very interesting and not many travellers has such a background….


I also think she is quite modest and unsolicited and not the type thats like «look at me how cool and adventorous I am» as quite a few other travellers seem to be at times…

Yes IB has gone a bit commercial. But then again she does what she does for a living now and have done so for years already. And as we all know travel with a motorbike around the globe is quite costly nowadays…and I actually envy her a bit that she can make money of the things she does. I think many travellers would like to do the same….

Live and let live

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Just had a Facebook group to join suggestion appear in my timeline: IB's "Fan Club"

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1233...957/?ref=share

According to the stat in the intro it has 34 thousand members. She's doing something right. The gender/age stats of the membership was unavailable. I'm guessing I likely also fit into the fan club's demographic


Post script on 23.07.23. Despite telling my Facebook app that I didn't want to join IB's fanclub, the suggestion to join the club is back again tonight. That teaches me to delete my app cookies today! The "Itchy Booters", these are people inspired by her, has now reached 38k. That's 4 thousand more in just 6 weeks. Sensational

I think I'm off to join the Far Side!

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I think your post was good and I am an Itchy Boots fan.

Most of us are probably jealous of Itchy Boots on some level.

Anytime you post about yourself online, you knowingly/ unknowingly open yourself up to ridicule.

One thing that annoys me about Itchy Boots videos is she claims to be "alone" the whole time. I am pretty confident that this is not always the case, but I think she pretends it is that way to get more views and support.

You can always find fault if you look for it hard enough. I can't imagine it being all that "fun" having to document all of your interactions on an international motorcycle trip. I'm sure she has a lot of security concerns just with the dollar value of her camera equipment alone. Her trip probably isn't as "fun" as it looks. She's probably only posting the exciting parts.

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Do you have any evidence of this, or are you just hating on her?

I think that would be hard to do.

You must make sure everything you use is always on the bike, nothing popping into shot that's been in the support van for days. No sudden use of a massive tripod or reflector for better shots. No extra glass on the hotel table.

Anyone you meet on the road must be somehow stopped from posting on social media with the same producer in the back ground.

You must be careful to edit out any refference to the support. No one passing you stuff from off screen.

A drug mule and their minder might do it, but they are staying off social media.
A production like Long Way Whatever can do it by editing with the continuity supervisor taking notes.
A pod cast of this type though? Managing it when studio based TV gets a runner or assistant in shot often enough?

Still, let's see if there is anything by way of additional information. It's certainly a bit of a wild claim to make without anything extra.

Andy

Evidence she was not traveling alone?

No hard evidence, and again, I really do not care either way.

I became skeptical when I saw her Darien Gap episode where she was in Turbo, and the boat part where she was going to Panama.

I made that trip myself. Turbo is not a city where you can leave your bike unguarded for any period of time. Someone was there watching her bike, making sure nothing was stolen.

I could be wrong, but I don't think she covered the boat part to Panama very much, because she didn't want to show the other bikes and travelers on the boat.

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She left her bike at that underground car park so it was safe whilst making arrangements. Also she met up with someone (Juan) in Turbo who did the actual arranging - so whilst she was not alone as a traveller she was - unless you include the people that pump her gas, lift her bike on and off boats etc in which she had a load of people with her, personally I don't include them.

She has not been alone the whole way - she met up with Charly Sinewan for a bit and then whilst she was mending after a crash she was with Ed March. If she was with someone, then she wouldn't have needed their help.

This is all people looking down their noses at someone that is out there, doing it. For me, I find it interesting, I am not an avid watcher but it is interesting - and seeing how she copes with the events that life throws at her is reassuring (particularly border crossings).

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That's awfully strong, effectively calling her a serial liar.

Some of her quotes: I'm a Dutch woman traveling alone...
Riding a motorbike on your own in Ladakh as a female solo traveler...
I've ridden 150.000 kilometers solo around the world and still counting!...
I've lived, worked and traveled solo in more than 80 countries by now...
A solo traveler on a mission to travel the world by motorcycle...
traveling alone also pushes you to face every struggle by yourself...



She consistently describes herself as a solo traveller, so why should you be so confident she is lying?

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