If you could ask the founders of Lonely Planet one question – what would it be?

Here’s your chance.

Tony and Maureen Wheeler, who arrived in Australia in 1972 after following the hippy trail with barely a cent to their names, decided to write about their travels and sell the resulting giudebook/manuscript to make ends meet. It worked, and they’ve been doing it ever since.

I’m interviewing the Lonely Planeteers for the Irish Echo next week, and while I’ve got a plethora of questions I intend to put to them, I’d like to hear what other travellers would ask.

So I’m throwing it out there – what would you ask the world’s ultimate backpackers?

Comments close on Tuesday, so get your questions in and keep them original and snappy – I’ll post the answers to as many as I can when the interview appears in the paper.

Incidentally, I’m currently reading Tony’s latest book: Bad Lands: A Tourist on the Axis of Evil, which makes a great case for travelling in Libya, Iran, northern Iraq, and North Korea.

On the way home, perhaps. I’m busy right now.