I have found that all I need in life is the right attitude. And what can be comfortably carried on a Royal Enfield.
Jacqui Furneaux

​7 YEARS. 20 COUNTRIES. NO PLAN.
How it started...

In 1998, after bringing up a family and being a nurse and health visitor, I set out on a year’s journey, on my own for the first time ever. I started backpacking in Thailand and explored many South-East Asian countries armed only with wide-open eyes and a guide book. Six months into the trip and feeling quite the adventurous explorer, I went to Pakistan and India before returning to the UK.
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But I found I really liked travelling and although at my age I really should have known better, I set off again, this time combining my love of travel with my other passion … motorcycling. I'd owned various Japanese motorbikes over the years since passing my test aged 24 but had never had an Enfield!
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Picking up my brand new Enfield from the showroom in Chennai, India.
​Exchanging guide books for road maps, for my 50th birthday I bought a 500cc Enfield Bullet in India and rode it, initially alongside the Dutchman who had suggested the idea. None of it was planned. I would not have dreamed I’d be having this chance of a lifetime when I should have been saving for my retirement. But life’s too short not to take a chance. 
Talks, events, media work
Since my "big trip", the journey covered in my book, Hit the Road, Jac!, I have enjoyed travelling extensively on the same Royal Enfield motorcycle, either alone or sharing the joy of adventuring with company. I've given talks to a variety of audiences. I've also written for many magazines and blogs and been interviewed for podcasts and on radio stations.

I continue to travel and write, although my more recent adventures last weeks or months, rather than years. I've ridden mostly in Europe and Morocco but the Enfield and I returned to Australia for six months, exploring Tasmania and Victoria.

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