Firsthand Accounts Make History Spring to Life
19:31 17/03/2016
When traveling, having a guide (or a friend who functions as a guide) who actually lived through the local history heightens the experience. When I was...
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The US National Parks centenary year
12:26 17/03/2016
2016 sees the centenary of the establishment of the National Park Service by President Woodrow Wilson on 25 August 1916.  What a far sighted man he was!...
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“Foodie” Doesn’t Have to Mean Expensive: Cameron’s €25 Day in Ljubljana
20:44 16/03/2016
As I like to do every couple of weeks, today I’m sharing a post from Cameron Hewitt (co-author of many of my Europe guidebooks). Cameron’s current...
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Your 2015 Christmas Gift Just Keeps on Giving
21:15 14/03/2016
Last Christmas 2,500 of you joined me in supporting the work of Bread for the World. You gave $100 each and I matched it. Together we raised over $500,000...
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11 of the Best Suitcases for Travel
22:55 13/03/2016
As you probably know we travel a lot, but what you may not know is that we are LONG overdue for new travel suitcases so I’ve been doing a ton of...
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A Little Travel Fun with Samantha Brown
20:11 11/03/2016
Each year, Samantha Brown and I join a few other travel celebs at travel shows around the country. We were just at the Bay Area Travel & Adventure...
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Memorial to the Politicians Who Opposed Hitler
0:14 11/03/2016
I’ve been thinking about a poignant memorial at the Reichstag in Berlin dedicated to the 96 members of the German congress who spoke out against...
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Rick Steves Guidebooks Are Doing Pretty Darn Well
19:57 09/03/2016
I’ve come a long way since my piano-teaching days, when I had just one self-published guidebook. (That’s the first edition of Europe Through...
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My Conversation on “The Pub” with Adam Ragusea
22:00 08/03/2016
(Photo: Ed Shenkman/American Public Television. Used with permission.) At a recent national convention for public television programmers, I enjoyed an...
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Mt. Pulag Climb: 11-Hour Mt. Pulag Summit Hike! (Part 2) #NaPulagsaGanda
4:53 08/03/2016
Read first: Mt. Pulag Climb: The Day before the Climb (Part 1) From the top of Mt. Pulag, seeing the sun rise above a sea of clouds is truly an awesome...
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