h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

 This is the journal entry that is most likely to turn into a page.

It all started over 30 years ago when I first got a flying licence so that I could fly around the world. Sounds daft but I'd driven round the world first in the back of my father's car in 1956, when I was 5 and 6, and then again when I was eighteen with my brother Scoop. A year and a half journey driving through Southern Africa, Australia and North America. So at 21, flying around the world seemed an obvious next thing. However I got into television.

It took over, I became a documentary researcher, then producer, then executive producer and on up. Lots of hard work, adventure and luck. Flying was always there in my mind but never done.

Indeed I got the driving bug again when five years ago I came up with the mad idea of driving from London to New York, something no one had ever done before. To fund it I turned the project into a television event. We got backing from Ford, endorsed by various UN agencies, and in the depth of winter set off for Siberia. 2 months later we triumphantly reached the end of Russia, a first, but promptly sank in the Bering Straits which weren't frozen. How we dusted ourselves down and 3 month after leaving London we arrived at the UN headquarters in New York. All recorded on television, on ITV in the UK, PBS and Discovery in the US.

It was the most extraordinary adventure and it put the "obvious next step is flying" bug firmly back in place. First I wanted to help set up The Digital Village and h2g2 but now its time to get that flying licence back.

I've no idea where it will lead but tomorrow I'm off to an airfield to see about some lessons. And see what comes of it.