Ted Simon

After studying chemical engineering at Imperial College he began his newspaper career in Paris with the Continental Daily Mail.

Back in England, whilst undertaking National Service with the RAF he founded Scramble, a magazine for recruits, which caught the attention of Arthur Christiansen, redoubtable editor of the Daily Express, and worked in Fleet Street for ten years.

In late 1973, sponsored by The Sunday Times, Simon began travelling around the world on a 500 cc Triumph Tiger 100 motorcycle.

[citation needed] In 1980, married with one son, he moved to Northern California, became active in organic farming and consumer supported agriculture, and wrote the book The River Stops Here: Saving Round Valley, A Pivotal Chapter in California's Water Wars.

In 2001, Simon started a new motorcycle journey, this time on a modified BMW R80GS,[5] that roughly followed the same route as his 1973 trip.