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.
Once again things don’t exactly go as planned. We’ll just scoot south through Death Vallley and end up, late in the day, at Las Vegas, was the initial proposition. But then we heard about Bodie and decided to make a short backtrack to this ghost town. &nb...
Sure enough, Kieran, my jet-lagged son, slept in very late and by the time we'd packed up, poured the requisite 20 gallons on board and set off it was nearly noon. We went north-east through Sacramento almost to Lake Tahoe before climbing up over the 7740 ft Luther...
I'm convinced that trips never go to plan (nor should they) and this one didn't: Maureen's flight from Australia turned up four hours late. It was just as well we planned a very short trip on the first day, 40 miles east from San Francisco to stay with a friend in Dan...
In 1994 I drove coast-to-coast across the USA (and back again) in an ancient Cadillac and posted a daily blog as we went along. Looking back at that blog, 11 years later, I'm amazed how nonchalant we were about our Detroit chariot's awesome fuel consumption. But check...
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