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Q And, and presumably you were, you were doing all this with like next to no money, right?
A Yeah. We had to do everything as cheaply as possible, so it was third-class rail, and it was hitchhiking. We hitchhiked from Bangkok all the way to Singapore to get down there, and then we went across by boat to Jakarta, and then we went by bus to Bali, and then in Bali we were really run out of luck. The airline that was supposed to, that we were supposed to have tickets on to take us to Australia, uh, broke down and didn't have any more planes. And so, um, we met this New Zealander who had a little yacht, and he was looking for crew To get down to Australia, so we got on his yacht and crewed to Australia.
AI assessment note: “Yeah. We had to do everything as cheaply as possible”
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Q But, I mean... Were there ever any moments where, you know, it wasn't going well?
A Oh, there was a period when things were not looking very good, and that happened at around, around 2000, and, ah, we had grown so fast, and we reached a point where we were doing so much. We had television going, we had started investing heavily into the digital side of things, a lot of staff, a lot of, you know, we created a whole lot of desktop publishing before it was even a term. And it was eating away all of the money. The books were still selling like crazy, but we were just doing so much, and we were in the middle of that when nine 11 happened, and of course, people stopped traveling, and travel guides then just stopped.
AI assessment note: “Oh, there was a period when things were not looking very good”
