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URL:https://www.gpb.org/events/donor/2026/10/08/rick-steves-virtual-event
SUMMARY:Rick Steves Virtual Event
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DESCRIPTION:More about Rick Steves: Rick Steves\, America's most respected
  authority on European travel\, empowers Americans to have European trips 
 that are fun\, affordable\, and culturally broadening. In 1976\, he starte
 d his business\, Rick Steves' Europe. Rick produces a best-selling guidebo
 ok series\, a popular public television show\, a weekly public radio show\
 , a syndicated travel column\, and free travel information available throu
 gh his travel center and ricksteves.com. Rick Steves' Europe also runs a s
 uccessful small-group tour program taking 30\,000 travelers to Europe annu
 ally.\n\nMore about event host Samantha Brown: Over the last 20+ years\, 
 Samantha Brown has traveled around the world visiting over 250 cities in 6
 2 countries and 40 of the 50 U.S. states\, creating hundreds of hours of p
 rogramming content. Samantha’s career began in 1999 when she began hosti
 ng Travel Channel’s Great Vacation Homes. She’s since also hosted Gi
 rl Meets Hawaii\, Great Hotels\, Passport to Europe\, Passport to Latin
  America\, Great Weekends\, Green Getaways\, Passport to China\, and S
 amantha Brown’s Asia. Then\, in January 2018\, she began hosting and pro
 ducing the Emmy award winning show\, Samantha Brown’s Places to Love o
 n PBS.  \n\nMore about the book On The Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathman
 du and the Making of a Travel Writer by Rick Steves:  \n\nStow away wit
 h Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments\, misadventures
 \, and memories of his 1978 journey on the legendary Hippie Trail.\n\nIn t
 he 1970s\, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied “Hippie 
 Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. A 23-year-old Rick Steves made the tr
 ek\, and like a travel writer in training\, he documented everything along
  the way: jumping off a moving train\, making friends in Tehran\, getting 
 lost in Lahore\, getting high for the first time in Herat\, battling leech
 es in Pokhara\, and much more. The experience ignited his love of travel a
 nd forever broadened his perspective on the world.\n\nThis book contains e
 dited selections from Rick’s journal and travel photos with a 45-years-l
 ater preface and postscript reflecting on how the journey through Turkey\,
  Iran\, Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, India\, and Nepal changed his life.\n\nYo
 u know Rick Steves. Now discover the adventure of a lifetime that made him
  the travel writer he is today.
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