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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How to Be a Travel Writer: Become a Generous Teacher of Travel, Not a Travel Agent
1:00 01/01/1970
One of the questions I’m most commonly asked is, “How can I become a travel writer?” It’s a good question, and one that I enjoyed answering in my memoir, Postcards from Europe. While some of...
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Turning Faith and Travel into Political Action
1:00 01/01/1970
America is such a richly blessed and exciting land of opportunity, and those opportunities are floating (or trying to float) in the free market of ideas. With stakes so high, media so pervasive,...
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