When I was 3 1/2 my father (WW2 Halifax nav RAF) used to take me to the Joint station to look at the A4 Pacifics. After a bit the only way to get the screaming brat out of the station was to get on a train. The shortest stop was to Dyce. After a couple of occasions I found that there were these interesting things called aeroplanes on the other side of the fence (this was in the days when the pax terminal was on the east side next to the Gander- Dower building).
One thing led to another and now I'm looking forward to my RAF pension.
In between I have looked at aircraft of all sorts anytime and everywhere (there are some really dangerous bits on Britain's motorways - Filton, M25 J12, M40 by Wycombe, M42 by Birmingham, M1 by Wittering, Kegworth (always sad, like M74 by Lockerbie) and a whole chunk of the A1 through Yorkshire).
Spotters - anyone in aviation who doesn't has missed something along the way. Its more than a job.
Spotters - not everyone has the luck to get what I have had from flying. If you take pleasure from looking and logging - good luck.
Sven