Rick Steves and travelling abroad
Author and Travel Show Host Rick Steves spoke to a full auditorium on March 5, 2012 at the Salt Lake Public Library as part of the library’s Authors Live series and Steves’ 20 city tour. Steves offered tips about how to travel better through Europe and provided encouragement for those who want to travel.
“Equip yourself with good information, expect yourself to travel smart and you can,” says Steves. He encouraged people to find an up-to-date travel guide book that works for them. It is a tool that costs $20 for a $3000 trip. Steves ensures that it will pay for itself.
“It’s really scary to write a guidebook because people are going to use it,” says Steves.
Steves never wanted to travel, but his parents dragged him to Europe when he was 14 years old.
“I distinctly remember statuesque women with hairy armpits,” he says. The amenities in Europe including the one-arm bandits got him thinking that travel might not be so bad.
While traveling, he realized that he was making the same mistakes as others were and thought that he could make travel better if he could gather those mistakes and let others learn from them.
“I am your globetrotting guinea pig,” says Steves. “I lose my traveler’s checks just to see what happens.” Salt Lake City was Steves’ third stop on his tour.
Check out the video below.
This article was originally published on examiner.com. Links updated August 2016.
“Equip yourself with good information, expect yourself to travel smart and you can,” says Steves. He encouraged people to find an up-to-date travel guide book that works for them. It is a tool that costs $20 for a $3000 trip. Steves ensures that it will pay for itself.
“It’s really scary to write a guidebook because people are going to use it,” says Steves.
Steves never wanted to travel, but his parents dragged him to Europe when he was 14 years old.
“I distinctly remember statuesque women with hairy armpits,” he says. The amenities in Europe including the one-arm bandits got him thinking that travel might not be so bad.
While traveling, he realized that he was making the same mistakes as others were and thought that he could make travel better if he could gather those mistakes and let others learn from them.
“I am your globetrotting guinea pig,” says Steves. “I lose my traveler’s checks just to see what happens.” Salt Lake City was Steves’ third stop on his tour.
Check out the video below.
This article was originally published on examiner.com. Links updated August 2016.