You can travel just for fun and you can also travel on purpose to meet the world and discover just how we all fit in on this planet.

But when you meet people face to face, you get to know them and their kids. I want my children to

understand the world as the world not just as an American sector.

Hi I'm Rick Steves. Today we're so journeying with Jim Wallace.

We're seeing how nomadic life lingers in modern Turkey.

It just takes like half an hour to pitch the tent.

And we're learning from evolutionary biologist Christopher Wills just how much we all have in common.

One of the things that I've learned as I've traveled from one end of the planet to the other is how similar everybody is.

Venture out with us in the hour ahead as a preacher, a scientist, and a child of nomads share

their own perspectives and help us to see the world in a whole new light as one big interesting

family. So come along, it's travel with Rick Steeves.

Some people just don't fit in. They don't want to own property or get a job with a big company.

Sometimes they'd rather stick to the same life their ancestors have lived for centuries, such as nomads, hurting livestock in search of sweet grass

in the mountains of Anatolia.

Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steves, a tour guide from Turkey explains how some of her family has lived off the land in goat-haired

tents as far back as anyone can remember. But recently her father's branch of the family tree

opted out in favor of a modern lifestyle. We'll hear how nomadic traditions fit or don't fit

into modern Turkey. Coming up in a bit on today's travel with Rick Steves. We'll also find

out what so-called primitive societies have taught

scientist Christopher Wills about the forces of natural selection and how societal

differences that keep us apart aren't always even skin deep.

Let's start with a different angle on our part aren't always even skin deep.

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