其中一个让我困惑的许多事情涉及人们似乎有明确的偏好。你知道，当一个面试官问：“你最喜欢的歌是什么”（或书籍，或抚摸酒或其他人），他们立刻带回了一定的答案。喜欢：“哦，'旋转轮子'”（或'在拉斯维加斯'或恐惧和厌恶的恐惧，或者是什么）。他们总是有答案。我想他们知道他们会被问其中一个问题，所以他们事先准备。

“那么你最喜欢的摩托车是什么？”- “哦，你知道，1954万CC系列D Black Prince，整理的阴影，绝对。不是黑骑士，当然是一个公平的Rapide。“

Ask me that kind of question and I’ll be like the bloke in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ who goes: “Blue. No, yellow,” when he is asked his favourite colour and is whisked away into the volcano. I’ll be like: “Ah, the Ducati ST3. No, the Kawasaki 750 Turbo. Or maybe …” by which time I am on my way into the volcano as well.

What I’m trying to say here is that I, and I suspect many other folk, do not simply have one favourite anything. It depends on when you’re asked, and what you’ve been doing. Imagine someone wakes you in the middle of the night and ask: “What is your favourite occupation?” You’ll say “sleeping,” right? And if you’re asked which piece of music you like best, you might say “Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder” if you’re stuck in school traffic but “Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries” if you’re invading Vietnam.

It all depends on the mood you’re in, and that is why I have several travel bucket lists, not just one. They are all carefully documented somewhere on my computer’s hard drive and quite often forgotten after they’ve been compiled. Until I turn them up somehow, some time.

为了让您了解这是如何作用的，从我刚刚设法找到的许多列表中查看前导目的地。请记住，我没有去过这些地方的大多数，我刚看过这些照片。所以没有保证他们可能是什么样的;我不建议他们。

Let’s kick off when I’m in the mood for some variety. I go to the list that begins with Madagascar. Not only are there apparently endless sand roads throughout the island, but there are also those spectacular boab-type trees lining the roads. A paradise for a photographer awaits there, and it’s not only the roads and the trees. Somewhere in the south of the island there is a wilderness of knife-sharp eroded grey limestone blades which make up a seriously scary labyrinth. And you know what else? There are also white lemurs which have to be seen to be believed. So Madagascar leads the list of places that offer a combination of riding, photography and mind-blowing rocks with white monkeys. Hmm, not many others of those around, I would guess.

另一个名单是张家界国家森林公园在中国，似乎直接从“阿凡达”直接与植被长满了陡峭的石塔。只有他们不是创造特殊效果部门，而是母亲的自然。我很乐意在那里骑车。看到在地平线上出现的这些岩石的这些苗条的思考是辉煌的。列表的其余部分包括相似，但可能在令人惊叹的景区附近。

The ‘deserts’ list is headed by the rather more accessible and less daunting Namibia. I have wanted to visit the Skeleton Coast ever since I read a book called “A Twist of Sand” by Geoffrey Jenkins as a kid. It is set on the Skeleton Coast, and it featured such fascinating details as the large cairns made of stones which apparently line the coast at intervals. They have channels around their bases, and the coastal fog settles on them, with the condensed water running down into the channels where various animals come to drink it. According to Jenkins, nobody knows who built the cairns, and I want to see them and the rest of the coast. That one is on the list for 2024, I hope.

France has a list all to itself, and differs in that I have visited many places there to which I would like to return. That includes Paris; I am always up for a visit for the food and the atmosphere of the cafés, the opulence of the museums and the sheer pleasure of just wandering or riding around. Then there is the Massif Central, which I have not explored but which beckons me with its outstanding, narrow mountain roads and verdant views. Verdant views; that’s not bad. And there’s the Channel Coast with its chalk cliffs, the south with the Alps Maritimes, the… actually, would anyone mind if I moved to France? It would do wonders for my rough French, too.

当我想到城市,总有Hamburg. My father’s home town and one of the most beautiful cities in Germany, which specializes in beautiful cities. And then there’s the “small countries” list, headed by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. And… but I’m beginning to have withdrawal symptoms here.

你问我哪个是我最喜欢的目的地？“呃，好吧…”

（照片：熊，除了指示。）