Lois Pryce

Lois Price is one of the leading female biker travellers who writes really great books about her journeys. Jayne who reviewed Red Tape and White Knuckles thoroughly enjoyed it and asked the questions.

J. What is your motivation for doing these trips on your bike?

LP: Curiosity and adventure! To see the world and to put myself in situation that I would not encounter otherwise, and to learn about the world.

J: Knowing there are places in Africa that women are not allowed on their own, how did you plan to cover these areas on your trip?

LP: I wasn't travelling anywhere where women are 'not allowed' alone. There were plenty of places where it is very unusual to see a woman alone, but nowhere where it is actually illegal.

On Tuesday 22nd January 2008 I met Lois Pryce at Piccadilly Waterstones, I'd arrived by train and bus but Lois had arrived on her latest bike! If you thought Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman et al have it there own way in travelling the world on their motobikes you'd be very wrong.

Lois is a part of a fast growing fraternity of female riders doing their own thing travelling the world with no backup whatsoever. 'In Lois on the Loose' she tells quite a story about her trip down the Americas from Alaska through Canada and down through Central America to the southern most tip of South America. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting her and look forward to her next book and interview.