Tag: Rick Steves

Rick Steves on Legalizing Pot in Washington

A few days before voters in Washingston state legalized marijuana for recreational use, Rick Steves wrote an op-ed in the Seattle Times in support of the measure.

Initiative 502 is not pro-pot. Rather, it’s anti-prohibition. We believe that, like the laws that criminalized alcohol back in the 1930s, our current laws against marijuana use are causing more harm to our society than the drug itself.

Marijuana is a drug. It’s not good for you. It can be addictive. But marijuana is here to stay. No amount of wishing will bring us a utopian drug-free society.

Not surprisingly, in the days since the passage of these laws in Washington and Colorado, some have wondered if we’ll see the dawn of American marijuana tourism.


In Italy, a Toast to American Breakfasts

On eating in Europe, and what Europeans have to say about American cooking

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Front Row at Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls

Front Row at Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls Photo courtesy of Rick Steves

On watching the mad, red-and-white scramble at Spain's legendary Festival of San Fermín

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Dingle, Ireland: In Praise of a Humble Town

On one of Ireland's national parks of traditional culture

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The Back Lanes of Tangier

On the pleasures of wandering in the evolving Moroccan city

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Among the Cherry Blossoms in Washington, D.C.

Celebrating the arrival of spring and powerful words on a visit to the FDR Memorial

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Haiti: Give Aid or Deal With the Roots of the Problem?

On the question few people are asking about Haiti after the earthquake

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Resolutions for Travel in the New Year

On what he wants to do more of in 2010, from taking photos to embracing technology

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Travel Writer as Curator

On the state of newspapers and the role of tour guides and guidebook writers

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Reviving Brand America

Reviving Brand America REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz

Exploring Europe, exploring travel as a political act

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European Flesh and the American Prude

European Flesh and the American Prude Alexandra Beier/Reuters

Exploring Europe, exploring travel as a political act

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The Virtue of European Tolerance

Exploring Europe, exploring travel as a political act

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Immigrants, Treasure Your Heritage—and Melt

Exploring Europe, exploring travel as a political act

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Rick Steves and David Sedaris, Redux

This weekend on his radio show, Rick Steves re-played an entertaining interview with David Sedaris on his time as an expat in Paris and Tokyo. In case you missed it when it first aired last fall, here it is in full.


Rick Steves, It’s Time For a Tijuana-Off!

lucha libre Mexican wrestler Tijuana Photo by Jim Benning

The travel guru recently suggested that the Mexican border city is a hellhole. Tijuana-defender Jim Benning invites him to go mano a mano, travel writer-style, south of the border.

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Rick Steves: “If the Bed is Too Short, You Are Too Long”

I didn’t come across anything I didn’t already know about Rick Steves in yesterday’s Bellingham Herald profile, but I loved this quote about the bed. It perfectly summarizes Steves’ relentlessly upbeat approach to travel—an approach we could all benefit from when inevitable travel disappointments arise.


Andrew Steves: Travels in Dad’s Footsteps

For young Americans, the first solo trip to Europe is a rite of passage. But what's in store if your father is the king of Europe guidebook writers? Jim Benning finds out.

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