Sadly no impressive pics like Mollydog's in my timeline but that's probably because most of my influences were local - friends mainly. I started on two wheels because living in the country at the time I needed transport and it was all I could afford. Back in the 60's you either went scooter or motorbike and I started with one of these -



Its shortcomings soon became apparent when I started doing longer trips on it but it was better than cycling!

About a year or so later a friend started working with a guy who was doing long distance van trips in his spare time and a bunch of us put a winter trip to Austria together. That was my first time out of the country and the start of a love affair with the Alps.

Smudgy black and white pic from that trip -



Six months after that was the first of the bike trips - two of us to Morocco by 250cc Yamaha. Pic below is me in a campsite in Tangiers writing a postcard home (we got back before it arrived).




That was 1970. Tharoughout the 70's we did at least one major Eurotrip each year. This was Greece in 1973, at roughly the same time as Ted Simon was in Libya



I have read a number of travel books - Jupiters Travels, Zen etc but tbh most of my inspiration is generated internally. I just do whatever I've been interested in - subject to the checks and balances of family, finance etc.