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New Eyes for a New Year: Rick Steves and the Power of Transformational Travel

Rick Steves delivers the wisdom behind travel, especially in our fraught modern era. A response to ‘The Interview: Rick Steves Refuses to Get Cynical About the World’ in the New York Times.

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Justin S. Bailey
Jan 03, 2025
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Photo: Courtesy of Rick Steves' Europe

“To me, there are two kinds of travel: There’s escape travel, and there’s reality travel. I want to go home a little bit different, a little less afraid, a little more thankful, a little better citizen of the planet.”

-Rick Steves

The image of Rick Steves isn’t exactly the most fashionable in my mind. I go out of my w…

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