Dark El Greco clouds threatened overhead, stark against bright, clear horizons. Hail pelted the masses of people clogging the ...

European travel expert Rick Steves speaks highly of Greece's previous capital. The historic city has access to glorious ...

Dark El Greco clouds threatened overhead, stark against bright, clear horizons. Hail pelted the masses of people clogging the ...

Rick Steves and Elizabeth Murray Elizabeth Murray ... RS: How we kept wondering, “Should we just bail out of this and go back to Greece and have a good time at the beach with all the other ...

Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer,” features photographs, a foldout map and reproductions of journal ...

(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 a ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Rick Steves fans learned that even travel experts can miss connections. "I woke up very early in ...

If you’re an American who likes to travel, you’ve probably been influenced by Rick Steves. He’s known for his guidebooks ...

He also let go of his students and turned his recital hall into a venue for teaching people how to travel.

Rick Steves never set out to be a travel guru. In the late '70s he had just graduated from university and was starting a career as a piano teacher. He felt the call of the "Hippie Trail" — an ...

I liked that a lot.” As a travel writer, it's easy to relate to the idea of being a “knucklehead” with a notebook, but the suggestion that Rick Steves, perhaps the best known of us knuckleheads, was ...