The Year’s Best Tour Scrapbooks — with a Surprise Ending!
1:00 01/01/1970
Bob and Pam Gudas’ Best of Europe in 21 Days scrapbook   One of my favorite spring chores is looking over the top entries in our annual tour alumni scrapbook contest. Each year we invite our tour...
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Stow Away with Me for “A Hundred Days of Europe”
1:00 01/01/1970
  Today I flew — as I have every year at this time since the 1980s — to Europe to kick off another spring of exploring, checking, learning, tasting, and sipping. This photo features a bit of my...
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Meet Fellow Travelers in Your Town on Ricksteves.com’s Travel Group Meetings Forum
1:00 01/01/1970
  Ricksteves.com may have my name on it, but it’s yours, too — a thriving meeting place where independent-minded travelers can meet, compare experiences, and share travel dreams. I’ve always...
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Warning: This Video Contains Violence to Guidebooks
1:00 01/01/1970
Each year at this time, I perform a ritual sacrifice of guidebooks before heading off on a two-month research trip. If you don’t want to see a travel writer giddy with boxcutter joy as he slits the...
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Rick Steves’ Travelers’ Café — A “Third Place” Where Travelers Inspire Travelers through Blogs and Journals
1:00 01/01/1970
When I was in my twenties, my first really big media break came when I was invited to New York City to be on Arthur Frommer’s cable TV show. I remember Arthur putting his arm around my shoulder,...
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My Sister, the Iditarod Musher
1:00 01/01/1970
Dear travelers, Sometimes I enjoy thinking that I’m “roughing it” and “off the beaten path.” But I’ve never done any travel as rough and untouristy as my sister, Jan. She’s a couple of...
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Sharing the Wonder of My First Solo Trip, 1973
1:00 01/01/1970
On my first solo trip to Europe, in 1973 — just after high school graduation — I wrote postcards home nearly every day. I packed so much information onto each card that it was a challenge to read...
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Meeting Teachers and Students at the LA Travel Show: Their Classroom is the World
1:00 01/01/1970
I enjoyed speaking at the LA Travel and Adventure Show this weekend. And a highlight was meeting the many teachers and students who incorporate travel into their classes and studies. For example,...
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Behind the Scenes at a Travel Show
1:00 01/01/1970
This is travel show season when nearly each weekend I visit a big city’s convention center and give talks at a travel show. If you always wondered if these are worth the time and money (around $10...
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Hello Strudel, Schnitzel, Hanz, and Ludwig!
1:00 01/01/1970
A few posts ago I asked for help giving my sister Jan’s Iditarod dogs European-travelly nicknames. Thank you for the overwhelming response, both here on the blog and on Facebook! After reviewing...
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