After 50 years of writing about places others might think of as a challenge,

Paul Tharous come up with his own list of the 10 essentials of rewarding travel.

Turns out a lot of them involve what you don't bring along.

People do it in so many different ways.

One is an ordeal, another as a love affair, another as autobiography.

People travel for so many different reasons.

Some aren't traveling at all to a place, this sort of fleeing a place trying to get away from home.

Paul Thruu shares his thoughts about the art of memorable travel in the hour ahead.

Today on Travel with Rick Steves.

And with all the emotions that are resurfacing with the 10-year anniversary

of the September 11th attacks, we've invited the publishers of Poetry after 9-11 to share

how poetry has helped their fellow New Yorkers cope.

Because we'd all been witnesses to something really horrific and very difficult to understand

and it made no sense and we were trying to make sense of it. Let's explore our world together.

It's Travel with Rick Steeves.

Paul Thoreu knows how to make reading about travel almost as much fun as actually being there.

The best-selling author's latest book is a collection of writings from authors who influenced Paul in his own travels, plus excerpts from his own observations

over 50 years of exploring the world.

Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steves, Paul Thru lays out his advice for how best to explore and experience our world.

First, we're commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York.

Even without rebuilding the World Trade Center, a lot really has changed in 10 years.

But the emotions that Dreadful Day unleashed remain.

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