Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler (2017)

Hey, it's Guy here, and I just wanna let you know that we first ran this episode last May, and we're bringing it back because we think it will Totally put you in the mood for the summer travel season, especially if you happen to be going someplace very far away in a cheap car and with not A lot of money. Enjoy. We had grown so fast. We had television going, we had started investing heavily into the digital side of things, a lot of stuff, and we were in the middle of that when nine eleven happened, and of course, people stopped traveling and travel guides then just stopped.

Did you think that there was a possibility that the whole thing would collapse? Yeah. We did have to let people go. We did have to cut back the number of books we did, and I honestly believe that The whole thing could disappear.

From NPR, it's How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. I'm Guy Raz and I'm a show today how Tony and Maureen Wheeler backpacked along the Asia hippie trail in the seventies. jotted down some notes and turn them into the biggest travel guide company. In the world.

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