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Rick Steves

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🗓️ 21 June 2009

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Rick chats with Scott Huler about his voyage in the Mediterranean to re-trace the steps of Ulysses and what he learned about himself 3,000 years after "The Odyssey." Also, a writer from Forbes.com shares with listeners the lengths some intrepid travelers are going to in order to reach the far corners of the earth. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

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0:00.0	From Homer to James Joyce, great minds across history have found inspiration in the tales of Ulysses.
0:07.0	But to the famous ancient sites described in the Odyssey still captivate travelers today?
0:12.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steves, and today on Travel with Rick Steeves,
0:15.0	we'll hear from Scott Hewler, who embarked on an Odyssey of his own,
0:19.0	sixth months retracing the footsteps of Ulysses all across the Mediterranean.
0:23.0	So I did kind of get chills there.
0:25.0	Just the moment I had given up finding anything,
0:28.0	something chases you down and finds you.
0:31.0	And I find in traveling, that's really's really I think the whole point of going
0:34.2	someplace new. Scott will tell us about his journey the surprises he discovered
0:38.4	along the way and how it felt to put himself in the sandals of that 3,000-year-old hero.
0:43.7	And later in the hour, Lauren Sherman from Forbes magazine tells us the lengths some
0:48.1	travelers are willing to go in order to visit some of the world's hardest to
0:51.2	reach vacation destinations.
0:53.0	When a vacation becomes an odyssey, up next on Travel with Rick Steves.
0:58.0	Scott Hewler used to think that ancient Greek classics like Homer's the Odyssey were hard to get his head around.
1:06.0	That was before he decided to actually travel the route Ulysses did around the eastern Mediterranean.
1:11.0	Scott joins us today on Travel with Rick Steve's to tell us just
1:14.6	how his quest brought those dusty old tales to life. And later, we'll learn about intrepid
1:19.7	travelers who go to the ends of the earth, literally, to reach some of the world's most
1:23.4	inaccessible vacation destinations.
1:27.0	Scott. Scott, thanks for joining us.
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