Tony Wheeler Quotes & Sayings

I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering ... but damn it, you will never be bored. — Tony Wheeler

Ultimately, magic finds you, if you let it. — Tony Wheeler

If there is a nice place, and the place does not come to you - you have to come to the place. — Tony Wheeler

All you've got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over. — Tony Wheeler

From Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story, re: the travel book boom of the 1970s
Surprisingly, none of the new developments in travel publishing came from established companies. The changes in the air seemed to completely bypass them and when they did wake up to the upsurge in growth it was too late -- they'd been overtaken. Much the same happened a decade later with computer books. Just as the travel book explosion was led by travelers who got into publishing rather than publishers getting into travel, so the computer book explosion was led by computer geeks getting into publishing. The regular publishers never saw it coming. — Tony Wheeler