By Tom Thumb, Posted Apr 01, 2011
 We could just never do it as well as they do. |
This was our April Fool’s Joke for 2011 – it spoils the joke a bit to have to say so but a whole bunch of people were taking us seriously and vowing to never come back…
Everyone has their price.
Since Road Junky was founded back in late 2004 we have always aimed to be the black sheep of the guidebook family, to say what other magazines would be too afraid to publish, to put the spirit back into travel.
We hope you agree that we tried.
But the travel industry and the internet have come on a long way since then – no longer can a simple content site hope to really make it in the age of web 2.0 and smartphone apps – we neither have the resources or the skills to really make it on our own in an increasingly competitive business.
So we’re happy to announce our acquisition by Lonely Planet who presumably want to increase their kudos by bringing Road Junky under their comprehensive umbrella of travel sites. Editors Jim Klee and Tom Thumb will stay on for some time as part of the deal before retiring if not to a Caribbean Island (we didn’t sell out for that much!) then at least to a beach in South India while we plot our next move.
We wish to thank all you road junkies out there for living the dream with us and we hope you’ll continue to be firm supporters of the website as it takes on more experienced leadership from the folks at the world’s most successful travel guide.
Tom Thumb
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Hand to Mouth to India is the tale of when I hitchhiked from England to India at the age of 20 with no money at all.
Passing through England, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and finally arriving in Goa where I slept on the beach all season and wrote the book.
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Tales of a Road Junky covers the last 12 years of my journeys around the world. telling the tale of coming of age in the Goa trance scene, rescuing foreign prisoners in Delhi, selling fake Rolex watches in the street in Tokyo, getting into trouble with the medicine mafia in Brazil and delving deep into the heart of Israelity in the Promised Land.
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Imagine you, the room you’re in, the planet and everyone in it were all just a Story, figments of imagination in the mind of a Storyteller. But with Hoomanity set on self-destruction, the Storyteller’s health begins to fail and if he should die, what would become of the Story that he tells?
All hope for our world lies in the hands of a 9 year old boy and a foolish Bloon…
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