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.
Provincetown on Cape Cod was our real furthermost east starting point but since we finished trip 1 at Concord this feels like the start of trip 2. Buying a cooler (trip 2 is shaping up to be much warmer than trip 1) is the first order of the day and that is followed ...
Part 1 of our Cadillac coast-to-coast Odyssey carried us from San Francisco via Death Valley, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Flagstaff, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, Amarillo, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Philadelphia and finally ended up at Concord, just outside Boston...
We head up the New Jersey Turnpike, skirt around New York City, which is completely enshrouded in an evil cloud of brown smog which would embarrass a Los Angeleno, and head north into New England. There’s one final pause just five miles before Tom Brosnahan’s place in...
Travelling with kids is all give and take, we’ll do this, then you can do that. So we start the day by backtracking to Hershey to visit the Hershey chocolate factory. I love factory tours - how does this get made? how are cars made differently in Hiroshima versus Detr...
The weather, uniformly beautiful from San Francisco as far as Little Rock has been distinctly changeable ever since. We wake up in sleepy Bedford to pouring rain and it continues, on and off for most of the day. Our Californian Cadillac rightly takes exception to this...
Today we manage our most comprehensive get-lost-exercise since our exit from Las Vegas two weeks ago. From West Virginia we go into Pennsylvania, intent on visiting Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous house. Unfortunately the house, the nearby towns and ev...
Another long drive day, through Tennessee and Kentucky into West Virginia. The Kentucky stretch is a real international tour - in short order we pass exits to Boston, New Haven, Paris, Versailles, Somerset, Winchester, Lebanon, Glasgow and even Danville, the very firs...
The Graceland hype is so overpowering it was kind of surprising to find two other attractions (one very low key and one very big budget) which we ranked ahead of the Presley extravaganza. The low key one was Sun Studios, where Elvis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerr...
What a little town Little Rock is. By lunchtime we’re in Memphis and then head for Graceland. The Graceland leaflet warning that it can be hard to find, despite its proximity to the city, turns out to be correct, we end up at the airport, on three different freeways h...
We expect this day to be the longest of the trip but the previous long day plus the time change results in a late start. First we drive just west of Amarillo to the Cadillac Ranch where a line of Caddys from the 50s and 60s are ‘planted’ in a field. their tailfins poi...
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