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AM: How does being married to the fabulous solo riding heroine, Lois Pryce, inspire you in goal-setting?

AV: She’s the real deal—I am just a clumsy Korean Karaoke to her Memphis Soul Stew original.

AM: Do you and Lois have a fondness for the Russian-made Ural motorcycle and sidecar for sharing fun as an adventure riding couple?

AV: I have never had so much fun. Naturally, after our Ural USA trip (zero adventure but 100% pleasure) we were converted. It was with not a little irony that we then heard that, a year later, Ewan McGregor had just bought one!

AM: Can you tell us how you got started riding, and at what age?

AV: Same old, same old, my elder brother Gerald. Being ten-years-old in 1975 and being surrounded by greasers on Triumphs and Nortons is wasn’t hard to get “sucked in.”

AM: You have taken your absolutely hilarious show on the road that promotes DIYing, and how a big budget and over-planning shouldn’t get in the way of our road dreams. Is this enough to keep you giving back to the adventure riding community full-time, or do you have bigger plans for inspiring a larger group of people?

AV: I suffer massively in that there is no industry that can make money out of my message. Paul Guillien at Touratech has been a fabulous patron even though I am far from being their best advert! My biggest message is to Americans—you are the greatest people in the world living in the richest and most developed society on this planet.

However, too many people in other parts of the Earth are not such fans, but you can charm them back, from the saddle of a motorcycle. You need to get out there and win the world back to your side, village-by-village, border-by-border. It might mean you have to go somewhere that seems uncomfortable, different or strange, but then again—that’s the essence of Adventure Motorcycling—being far, far from home, slightly anxious, and not sure what’s going to happen next….

AM: Any unusual future traveling plans?

AV: Mondo Ali Bongo!!!!!!!! Three yanks, four Brits. A 5,000 mile off-road arc across, Spain, Morocco and Western Sahara. Once we get to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania we collect a load of GPS-cached drop points from the Beast of Burden team. They will have buried food, fuel and water about every 150 miles across the Empty Quarter of the Sahara. We punch into the desert and spend the next two weeks surviving and travelling where absolutely no motorbike has been before. A 1,000 mile lunge into the unknown. Mark the name well: Mondo Ali Bongo!!!!!!!! AustinVince.com