This year will be my 20th anniversary of joing HU. WOW. That's gone fast.
 

WOW !!! That's gone fast.

I can still remember the day I joined. I was 25 years old. I'd just broken up from a girlfriend. I wanted to go to Australia to work and escape the U.K.

I remember asking a question about riding in Australia on Visordown. Which used to be a great forum in the U.K before it was sold.

I have no idea who it was, but I was directed here !!

From then I was HOOKED. From wanting to work in Aus, the inspiration I gained on here changed my plans to travelling the world on a bike. I'd be on here every day reading everything. Planning and preparing.

I ended up saving for a couple of years and flying off to South America. Very inexperienced and naive about travel. But with already friends I'd met on here. With meetings to go to and parties to look forward to.

Those small twists of fate. If I had never been directed to this website, my life would be VERY different now.

Crazy........

fantastic ! just goes to show you never know what 's around the corner in
life!
Keep up your good work on the site
Keith:clap::clap:

21 years for me (I am on my second username). I remember I was at university, aged 21 when I was toying with the idea of an overland backpacking trip from Johannesburg to Addis Ababa. The idea developed into motorcycling around Africa after I graduated, hence I joined this great community.

Soon enough I looked at bikes and decided I was more inclined to a 4 wheeled vehicle... and then Asia looked a lot more enticing than Africa.

So I never got a motorcycle (or licence) and never went to Africa (though I am still planning to) but stayed on this forum and have received (and shared) a lot of information. 21 years indeed went fast. Adding it up I spent about 5½ of them travelling.

EO