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Carl Stearns Clancy poses with his ‘round the world 1912 Henderson motorcycle. In his luggage on the back he carried not only a typewriter but also a camera to record his journey.

Feargal O’Neill and Joe Walsh prepare to embark on the Clancy Centenary Ride for 2012-2013, a trip which aims to replicate the first around the world motorcycle adventure. Read more about the endeavor in DDr. Frazier: Adventurers to 'Girdle the Globe'.

Following Clancy’s route through Asia I found a modern and bustling George Town in Penang, Malaysia far different from the one Clancy described nearly 100 years earlier. The lack of a road from Malacca to Singapore in 1913, through 150 miles of swampy jungle, I found in my research to be a modern high speed highway.

Clancy off-loaded his Henderson motorcycle in San Francisco, pictured here in 1913. He discovered the motorcycle crate had been shipped upside down and spent time at the Henderson motorcycle dealership using kerosene to unclog the mess caused by the engine oil.

This map showed the Clancy and Storey route through Scotland and England after taking a ferry boat from Ireland.

31 year-old Walter Storey poses with his new 1912 Henderson motorcycle at the beginning of their adventure.

While Clancy had to enter George Town with his Henderson motorcycle on a ship, I was able to speed across the salt water on the modern Penang Bridge, free to motorcycles.

Although the quality of photographs and maps was extremely poor in 1912-1913, research provided some of the routes in the form of photographed marked maps, enough to leave a well marked trail.

Flooding at The Dalles, Oregon caused Clancy to freight his motorcycle and himself eastward by train while I found a dry Interstate 84 highway and flooding controlled by a dam.

Passing through Montana Clancy would have used the Bozeman Pass to reach Livingston, much the same buffalo path used by Lewis and Clark in 1806 over 100 years earlier. Today that path is Interstate 90.

On the way to Gardiner and the entrance to Yellowstone Park Clancy would have passed the same mountains as did I on what is now Highway 89. I stopped here to trade rattlesnake tales with the pictured landowner, who had many to offer.

Pictured is a sign in Idaho Clancy would likely have not been able to imagine.

While following Clancy’s route across America I too often slept on the ground, albeit inside my tent well protected from the hungry hordes of mosquitoes Clancy lamented here in Montana.