Sometimes I am nostalgic for events that make one realize just how screwed up the world is today. Imagine naive students driving in notoriously unreliable British cars across the Middle East to Burma without getting kidnapped, robbed, shot or killed.
better full length color version of the Oxford Cambridge trek
The 70's were the last window to travel around the world overland. Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq were nice boring places with friendly people. Hippies bought drugs and "chilled" in Kabul. Lonely Planet came from this period. Tony and Maureen cashed out. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/travel/a-lonely-planet-founder-looks-back.html
A Lonely Planet Founder Looks Back (Published 2013)

Four decades after co-founding Lonely Planet, Tony Wheeler talks about traveling the hippie trail and figuring out the early days of guidebook publishing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/travel/a-lonely-planet-founder-looks-back.html
I highly recommend reading earlier travel guides by Murray, Baedaker and even Temple Fielding. Very non PC comments on the locals, nostalgic snapshots of cheap deals and vignettes of the pre globalization planet. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2733416/The-riotously-PC-travel-guides-The-informed-detailed-authoritative-unguardedly-rude-Baedeker-Guides.html
Baedeker: The most riotously un-PC travel guides ever!

The guides, founded in 1832 by German publisher Karl Baedeker, contain unforgiving comments on the 'natives' a traveller might have the misfortune to encounter.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2733416/The-riotously-PC-travel-guides-The-informed-detailed-authoritative-unguardedly-rude-Baedeker-Guides.html
This bizarre eBay ad kinda sums up travel today. Someone wants to sell their designer suitcase for $8,312.78 under a overly hip picture of the word "Terrorist" Travel is so yesterday. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rimowa-x-DIOR-Original-Topas-Trunk-Multiwheel-blue-LIMITED-EDITION/303609041778?hash=item46b0825372:g:ciUAAOSwyoBe-cFv
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