We were, however, very surprised when that one book was followed by hundreds of others, Lonely Planet offices popped up around the world and each year we unleashed what felt like an army of writers, researchers, photographers and cartographers to explore every country on Earth. Pictures from Tony and Maureen Wheeler’s 1972 journey to Australia: on the Ganges at Varanasi, India © Tony/Maureen Wheeler & Richard I’Anson/Lonely Planet Images With edition 19 appearing soon, sales of Southeast Asia on a Shoestring are now in the millions. In the following years we weren’t surprised when it found its way into so many backpacks. On trip two we could visualise the guide that would follow from the day we rode that motorcycle out of Sydney. The first trip across Asia had been enormous fun, but the idea that it was the foundation for an international business certainly wasn’t part of the picture. Of course we had no idea what we’d stumbled on, although years later it seemed obvious that this was the perfect moment to launch a travel publishing empire: the baby boomers were coming of age, jumbo jets were taking to the air and the hippie trail and the “Marrakesh Express” were on every young traveller’s mind.Ī year later we were exploring south-east Asia on a motorcycle, but by this time our travels were completely different. Maureen would bring hers home from the office each Friday night and we’d spend the weekend hammering out the text on the kitchen table in our basement flat in Sydney. We didn’t even have a typewriter when we put together that first guidebook. Months later we arrived, penniless, in Australia, decided our plan to circle the world in a year and “get travel out of our systems” was doomed, and a few months later created something that would ensure we’d never kick our travel habit: Lonely Planet. That dirt-cheap car carried us all the way to Afghanistan. Our backpacks contained some clothes, but they were mainly stuffed with dreams.
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Times change these days MBA graduates emerge with a backpack full of debts and need to start earning fast to pay them off. I’d just graduated from London Business School with an MBA, and the plan was we’d travel as far as that £65 car would carry us.
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