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.
The boring, too often repeated, questions I field all the time are ‘what’s your favourite place – followed by what’s the most dangerous thing that’s ever happened to you – and then where do you never want to go to again.’ Recently I’ve been hearing from friends who ha...
Despite thinking I really should avoid the USA I was back again in 2024 – after visits in 2022 and 2023 – and I’ve blogged on Charleston, Kansas City, St Louis and road-tripping across the state of Missouri. Although I did not get to the state of Kansas (I really thou...
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 ...
In 2022 I made a little USA and Canda Road Trip with British travel journalist Simon Calder. We started in Milwaukee, went north to Green Bay, Wisconsin, spent a night in delightful Eau Claire, cut across to Hibbing, Minnesota and managed to visit Bob Dylan’s childhoo...
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