Rick Steves’s 1978 journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu reflects a spirit of edgy wanderlust at odds with his image as a folksy ...

Steves and his friend travel mostly by local buses, including an epic journey from Istanbul to Tehran that he described as ...

EVERETT — Prostate cancer may have slowed down European travel expert Rick Steves temporarily but the 69-year-old is back on the road promoting his new book and will soon travel to Europe to film his ...

So it’s a treat to read his new memoir, On the Hippie Trail, and meet a Steves who is much younger and much more unsure — perhaps in need of a fairy godparent of his own. In 1978, Steves was a ...

(In this exclusive excerpt from Rick Steves’ “On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer,” Steves leaves his friend Gene Openshaw at a hotel to recover from ...

In those days, there were no formal guidebooks published on how to take the “hippie trail,” and of course no Internet, either. Travel guru Rick Steves with his 2025 book,” On the Hippie ...