The next upside-down year will be in the year 6009, so I doubt I will be around for that, but I was around at the last one in 1961. That year was a really interesting one for me – I was 16 and it was the beginning of a decade where the world recovered from a global war and just about everything changed.
I started the 60′s at school and ended it with a family, a successful business and a lot of memories In that time I did many things from working as a research assistant with the first commercial computers to being a stunt man in the movies (yes I did earn my actors equity card).
I have had an old photo album which by some miracle has survived and the photos are hilarious, I will try to save them and scan them onto Facebook and this blog so my kids can fall about laughing – they will never take me seriously ever again.
Here are the first two of a trip I made with a friend, Bob Mollison, on a BSA Bantam motorbike (125cc) traveling all around Europe. We had very little money and I remember the whole trip, including fuel, cost us less than 15 pounds sterling each for over two weeks.
Our top speed was under 25 mph unless we slip-streamed behind a truck and then we could reach 30 mph. Going over the Alps from Italy, the bike would not take us both up the St Gothard Pass, so we took it in turns walking up while the other used the bike – walking was quicker.
