Leon Logothetis’ around-the-world trip on Kindness One

As of this writing, I have been on the road for 100 days, going around the world on a motorcycle trip that’s been supported by other people’s kindness.

When we last left this story, I was being held up at the Vietnamese border, where the border authorities wanted to impound my bright yellow motorcycle.

Everyone loves my big yellow motorcycle with a sidecar, the one I’m using in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe.

Sometimes, words aren’t enough to describe the emotions the seize you.

Here’s the thing about circumnavigating the globe on a journey that’s funded and fueled by kindness: You don’t always find comfort but you almost always encounter adventure -- and I have, almost every day of a trip that began Aug. 10 from L.A.

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. -- Mother Teresa After my trip to the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan I wasn’t sure how I would react when I returned to India.

It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness. -- Charles Spurgeon Circumnavigating the globe from Los Angeles in a 1978 yellow motorcycle with a sidecar is not for the faint of heart.

My travels across the globe relying on the kindness of strangers with my trusted motorcycle, Kindness One, continue to amaze me.

“Never, ever give up.”

“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves -- finding themselves” --Andre Gide It’s quite humbling to think that I have already traveled from the fabled Hollywood sign in Los Angeles to the edge of Asia.

“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.” -- John Ruskin Murphy’s Law states that when something can go wrong, it will.

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be -- Voltaire As I was trying to find a free place to stay at a hostel in Zagreb, Croatia, and had just been unceremoniously rejected, I trudged out to the courtyard and heard a familiar accent.

If music be the food of love, play on. -- William Shakespeare As I was walking through the cobbled streets of Aix en Provence in France, I was enchanted by a melody that hung in the air.

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” -- Christopher Columbus It wasn’t easy finding a shipping company that would take me and my bright yellow Chang Jiang motorcycle and sidecar, dubbed Kindness One, across the Atlantic for free, but once I did, I was elated, then slightly worried about a 10-day journey across the vast Atlantic.

Traveling across America on Kindness One, my bright-yellow Chang Jiang motorcycle with the 750cc BMW engine, has not been easy.

“My religion is very simple.

“What we need is an army of the kind.”

“To travel is to take a journey into yourself” — Danny Kaye My dream of circumnavigating the globe on a vintage motorcycle began after I watched “The Motorcycle Diaries.”

Is Leon Logothetis compassionate or crazy—or both?