Friday, October 06, 2006





My idea of a perfect life and a perfect couple.



Tony & Maureen Wheeler. If you ask me who I think is the perfect couple, they would be it.

In case you are wondering who on earth are they. They are none other than the founders of Lonely Planet Publications. Yes, they are indeed the wonderful folks who gave us the Lonely Planets series for travel dummies (like me) who need guidebooks to fill us in into the amazing lifestyle, culture and interesting hangouts to visit in our destination country.

They started out as a young and adventurous couple who travel on tight budgets and travelled across Asia on the cheap. Till now, when they are like 60ish, they still travel like 6 months a year. Basically, its their job to scour for interesting and unique hangouts in every possible tourist destination in the world. Talk about having a job you love! They have even travelled to Antarctica! Oh mans, how cool is that! I seriously admire their passion for traveling and the ability to rough it out during their travels. How awesome if I can find the right companion to travel around the world with me in young and in old age. That would be the perfect life. After career slogging, retirement into a life of leisure travel would certainly make my life complete. I would surely die with no regrets man. Haha! Scuba dived in Manado, Mauritius, Maldives, Sipadan. Bungeed off the highest ledge in South Africa and cruised in the Caribbean. Not forgetting having shopped in Milan and Paris.

Well, this post is just indulging the travel junkie in me.

Posted by Jo at 6:25 pm