166a A Brilliant Teacher; Southern California Sidetrips

Travel with Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Places & Travel, Rick Steves, Travel, Public Radio, 721132, Society & Culture, Npr, Europe

4.5 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2010

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Rhine family of Salem, Oregon explains how they came closer together and what they learned while immersing themselves in a variety of cultures. Also, Rick checks in with a Lonely Planet author who has tips on finding the world, and family fun, in Southern California, and listeners send us their haiku about Seattle. 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	If you're a parent, have you considered the incredible education your family would receive by traveling together all around the world?
0:06.5	Stephen Toby Ryan took their three kids out of elementary school to follow the sun from New Zealand to Thailand, all across across Europe down to Africa, Central America, and then clear down to Argentina.
0:17.0	By the time they returned to Salem back in Oregon, eight months of world travel gave them irreplaceable time together as a family and the kids got more of an education
0:25.2	than they could have ever imagined.
0:27.4	What really struck me, what I wanted the kids to see was that really people all over the world
0:31.2	are just the same and that we're more alike than we are different.
0:34.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steves. Stay with us as we hear how an average family of five visited 30 countries on five continents and see how you can do it too.
0:43.0	And for adventure without a passport, we'll check in with Lonely Planets Andy Bender in Los Angeles.
0:49.0	He's got suggestions for exploring Southern California, where the world comes to America.
0:54.4	We'll help you plan adventures for the whole family in the hour ahead.
0:57.6	It's Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:00.6	To bring your family closer together than ever, how about packing one bag each and taking time off to see the world together?
1:07.0	Today on Travel with Rick Steeves, we're hearing how a family on a teacher salary took a year off to experience the world and how world schooling
1:14.4	changed their lives. Later in the hour we'll look at a part of the United States
1:18.2	were more ethnic neighborhoods than you can ever imagine bring the world to our shores
1:22.1	with tips on exploring
1:23.7	southern California. I'm Rick Steve's we've got inspiring ideas for family time in
1:28.7	your travels today on Travel with Rick Steve's.
1:33.0	Many parents fantasize about taking their kids out of school and giving them that travel experience,
1:37.0	taking them all around the globe, exposing them to the diverse wonders of this planet.
1:41.0	Today, I'm joined by Steve and Toby Ryan and their daughter Claire
1:45.0	who did exactly that and they wrote a book about it called a brilliant teacher.
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