252 Off the Grid in Mexico; Baltic Cities; Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari

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🗓️ 10 July 2011

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Paul Theroux describes what a trip the length of Africa taught him, 40 years after serving with the Peace Corps in a village in Malawi. Frugal Traveler Seth Kugel tells us what it was like to spend a week in a small Mexican town he picked at random, off the tourist grid. And Neil Taylor explains how much the Baltic countries have brightened up in 20 years, since they shook off Soviet Communism. 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	Put yourself in Paul Thoreau's place. A man on the shady side of middle age like me gets off a bus at a border.
0:08.0	Who on earth could you be you're not George Clooney you're a bum.
0:11.0	Hi I'm Rick Steeves. Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.
0:14.0	Paul Tharu describes what it was like to return to Malawi in Central Africa 40 years after teaching
0:19.6	English there with the Peace Corps.
0:21.2	Frugal traveler Seth Kugel tells us what he found when he picked
0:24.6	a small town at random to get away from the usual touristy parts of Mexico.
0:28.6	2,000 people living an old-fashioned lifestyle and pretty happy doing it the way they were doing
0:34.4	and they were very generous in letting me be a part of it. It's one of my best travel
0:38.8	memories ever. And Neil Taylor explains how the new found energy in the Baltic countries is contagious.
0:44.0	Color has come back. The gray atmosphere that there was,
0:48.0	which say in Soviet times, has gone completely and that's why they can be so welcoming to tourists.
0:54.0	Three accomplished travelers take us off the beaten path coming right up on Travel with Rick
0:58.4	Steeves.
1:01.1	Travelers can connect with people in the most unlikely places.
1:04.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.
1:06.0	Today on Travel with Rick Steeves, Paul Thoreau explains how his best-selling book,
1:10.0	Dark Star Safari, came about when he decided to rough it, regardless of his age, on a return
1:15.1	visit to Central Africa, his mission to see what had changed in 40 years. He joins us a little
1:21.1	later in the hour.
1:23.0	Neil Taylor knows the Baltics like a local.
1:25.6	He'll share the highlights of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania 20 years into their post-communist
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