I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.
In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.
My first car was a motorcycle.
The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.
And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.
Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.