It’s one of the questions that loads of the journalists I’ve spoken to have wanted to find the answer to.

It’s also a little bit of a different answer to that which most people would imagine and one of adventure and achieving a dream.

After I’d visited Africa for the first time back in 1997 something inside of me had changed. I’d lost the desire to sit in an office working as a Automotive Engineer, the subject which I’d studied at university and I’d been infected by the need to travel. To get out of the UK and learn as much as I could about other people, other ways of life and other countries.

Afritrex became my goal and my next big challenge; combining the dream of driving around the outside of the African continent taking on some serious physical challenges and raising lots of money for charity.

When I sat down with Richard Fidler in the ABC studios in Brisbane, it was this past that he wanted to find out all about. For half an hour I whittled on about goals, dreams and challenges…

To hear the interview please click on the link here. My interview starts halfway through at 30:00 minutes after a very amusing lady by the name of Hannah Gadsby.