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.
My recent December 2024 visits to Kansas City and St Louis bracketed two road trips across the state of Missouri, not to be confused with the Indian hill station of Mussoorie which I visited in October. ▲ Travelling east – Charlotte at the wheel, Simon photographi...
My December 2024 USA road trip took me from Kansas City (western edge of Missouri) to St Louis (eastern edge). From a half million population city to a quarter of a million (and declining?), but US city centre versus metropolitan boundaries numbers are always confusin...
So there’s the first thing that’s so surprising about Kansas City. It’s not in Kansas, it’s in Missouri, OK a bit of it sprawls across into Kansas, but most of it is in Missouri. Surprise two is it is so amazingly quiet. OK it’s the day after Thanksgiving, that might ...
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