Great article and interview with Rick Steves

[Onthefly]

Rick Steves, mild-mannered travel expert, wants to radicalize you
The guy who got "filthy rich" off helping American tourists travel without fear still refuses to sell out
By MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS
If you could take a road trip with your younger self, how well do you think the two of you would get along? Would you have an admiration for each other? Would you even recognize each other?

Rick Steves, the one-man brand behind a European tour company, dozens of travel books, and some of the most soothing content on PBS, has, of late, been getting reacquainted with the person he once was — and the fork in the road that set him on a path he’s remained on ever since. Before marriage, before children, before divorce, before cancer, before becoming, in his words, “filthy rich,” Steves was just a 23-year-old heading off on an adventure with a buddy.

But like generations of pilgrims, dropouts, and merry pranksters before him, what he discovered on that journey was his mission.

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/28/rick-steves-wants-to-radicalize-you/

[CTyankee]

1. I have loved and read Steves work I did travel and he helped me enormously to take art filled trips so many places.

He has been a wonderful guide for me in my travels and my writing about art.