Whatever will be, Will B, Will Baxter is an inspirational speaker and travel writer. He uses the idea of travel to motivate people to change their lives. He gives insights into living outside your comfort zone, how to meet new people and ultimately, how to create peace of mind.

Previous to travelling the world and becoming a travel author, he got a degree in ‘Transport Design’, qualified as a charted designer, set up a car company, designed trains, designed mousemats and helped numerous businesses re-brand themselves. An online portfolio of his consultancy work can be seen here

A brief history of Will B’s time on earth

1980 Age 0 – Bath (UK) Born the son of a yellow BMW driving lawyer and a bus catching Interior Designer.

1981 Age 1 – Wiltshire (UK). Found in bed with toy cars. Teddies were thrown on the floor.

1982 Age 2 – London (UK). Modelled for the front cover of Country Living magazine (pictures weren’t used because he had too much of a tan!)

1983 Age 3 – Warminster (UK). Spent the weekend with a friend of the family who was a doctor, he noticed that he was partially deaf!

1984 Age 4 – Wiltshire (UK). Had a life changing operation where grommets were installed into his ears so he could hear fully.

1985 Age 5 – Wiltshire (UK). Spent his childhood avoiding the Television. Preferring to draw planes and cars on the kitchen table.

1986 Age 6 – Warminster (UK). His last brother was born, making him the second of four boys.

1988 Age 8 – Dorset (UK). Spent five years at ‘Tomorrows school for today’s child’.

1993 Age 13 – Bath (UK). Sent to King Edwards School, Bath. Loved it. Focused on Art and Design Technology in order to realise his dreams of becoming a car designer.

1995 Age 15 – Salisbury Plain (UK). Spent a weekend being shot at as part of my school Combined Cadet Force training. Made it to the rank of Staff Sergeant in charge of REME (Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers).

1997 Age 17 – Salisbury (UK). Obsessed with the freedom of the open road he passed his driving test just three weeks after his birthday. Had 18 minor points! (you are only allowed 15 now)

1998 Age 18 – Bath (UK). A level results prove that he is not a balanced individual! Art: A, Design Technology A, Physics E, Maths U.

1998 Age 18 – Went of to the University of Huddersfield (UK) to the study ‘Transport Design’. Spent three years drawing cars, sitting around a table with twenty-five guys and speaking about women.

1999 Age 19 – Travelled to Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Jersey. Spent the summer inter-railing around Europe on his own.

2001 Age 21 – Travelled to Peru with his best mate (Matchu Pitchu, Arequipa,Lima and Inca Trail).

2002 Age 22 – Travelled to Czech Republic (Prague) Did a tandem Skydive strapped to an instructor who had his leg in plaster.

2002 Age 22 – Nottingham (UK). Set up the sportcar company Toniq with a friend who still runs it now in 2010.

2003 Age 23 – Nottingham (UK). Took a job designing trains and then spent six years living in the fashionable city of Nottingham.

2004 Age 24 – Travelled to Australia on business. Climbed the Sydney Harbour bridge. Visited Aires Rock. Did a bungee jump in Cairnes. “Absolutely the scariest thing I have ever done, I remember standing at the edge, thinking, if I can do this, I can do anything.”

2005 Age 25 – Nottingham (UK). Invented a new type of ergonomic mousemat with a gel wrist support and a paper pad under where your mouse goes. Set up a company and produced 1,500 of them.

2007 Age 27 – Travelled around the world in 80 handbags. (India, Singapore Australia, New Zealand, Los Angeles & New York.)

2009 Age 29 – Wiltshire (UK). After spending two years writing up his travel diary he self-publishes the book.

2010 Age 30 - Moves to London because it reminds him of his favourite city, Los Angeles. “Where the people are so free that even the tramps dream. They don’t ask you for one-dollar, they ask you for one-thousand-dollars!”

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What would you like to do now?
a) Contact Will.
b) Go to the Will Baxter interview.
c) Buy the book.