By the time Tony co-founded Lonely Planet Publications in 1973, he already had the travel bug. And ever since, travel and discovery have been at the heart of his life and career.
I’ve recorded several podcasts, interviews, conversations recently.
At London Business School Maureen and I recorded Journeys, a conversation with Rajesh Chandy the Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Developing World at the Wheeler Institute. People seemed to enjoy it, someone suggested that we ‘looked like two teenagers our to start an exciting adventure,’ not business like at all.
With Tyrel Cameron Eskelson I talked on his Interlocutor podcast about my travel life, starting in Pakistan when I was a small child right up to travel in recent weeks and for the rest of 2025.
Somewhat heart in mouth I start the recalcitrant beast to go and fuel it up while Maureen and Kieran finish packing. Terrible, it starts reluctantly, pops and bangs, won’t run smoothly. A hundred yards from the motel I begin to think we are going to be stuck and have ...
This is the day our plans get really screwed up. The intention was to drive through Monument Valley, dip into Arizona and return to Utah to overnight near Zion Park, which we’ll have a look around tomorrow. The reality is the Caddy doesn’t want to go anywhere, my incr...
Arches National Park is only five miles south of Moab and what a park it is. Everywhere you look is another view to make you reach for a camera, most of them otherworldly, how else can you describe them? The park is a pretty simple one to understand. There’s basically...
South out of Idaho and into Utah for a lunch stop at Salt Lake City, followed by a wander round the Mormon’s Temple Square and a tour led by one of the smiling ‘sisters’ who conduct the curious on regular 45 minute excursions. I must admit to having paid the Mormons a...
Loud growls from just outside our cabin window wake us, good grief have the bears come out of the forest to look for us? No, it’s really groans rather than growls and it’s coming from three disgruntled buffalos. One glance out the window explains what they’re unhappy ...
We start the day with bears, a ranger led walk about bears and the bear-human relationship at the park. Then we drive north to Canyon Village and in the afternoon walk along the north rim of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone to Artist’s Point, catching the terrific view...
Refreshed from a good rest the Caddy makes the long climb out of Buffalo resolutely if not exactly easily. The windy pass topping the Bighorn Range reaches just a few tailfins short of 10,000 ft and the green scenery on the eastern side abruptly changes to an almost d...
What a great day. It starts right with a bargain breakfast at the busy Valley Cafe in Spearfish. Actually it starts right even before breakfast. After last night’s miserable motel hunt we decide to avoid that problem at Yellowstone and a phone call to the park reserva...
The Black Hills, in the north-west corner of South Dakota, are an amazing blend of scenery good enough to make your mouth water and crass commercialism awful enough to make you throw up. Stretches of road through state and national parks are a delight to the eye but t...
Thirty miles from Yankton we discover we’re on the wrong road, heading north instead of west. With that little mishap sorted out we roll westwards across green, lush and roller-coasting prairies. I thought they were supposed to be flat? . . The weather report...
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