306a Germany Faux-Pas; Ferenc Máté's Real Life; Becoming a Road Trip Pilgrim
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.3 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Author Ferenc Máté shares the rewards of relying on one another, instead of our gadgets, and filmmaker Dan Austin describes how a low-budget bike journey changed his view of the world — and spurred him to do the same for others. Plus, listeners share teachable moments they encountered while traveling in Germany.
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| 0:00.0 | He escaped Communist Hungary as a youth, built his first house on top of an abandoned raft, |
| 0:05.8 | and eventually made a dream home for his family in Tuscany. |
| 0:09.2 | Arthur Ferrens Mate returns to travel with Rick Steves today to share more on what he suspects is |
| 0:14.7 | getting in the way of our being truly happy. I think that we have become almost a |
| 0:18.6 | virtual society and everything that we experience is watered down and secondhand. |
| 0:24.8 | And I think we've lost two things, the calm and the excitement of life, the intensity of life. |
| 0:30.6 | And Dan Austin's cross-country bike trip inspired him to help young people in developing countries by giving them their own bikes. |
| 0:37.5 | Dan shares how to become a road trip pilgrim, where making do with less really can give you more. |
| 0:43.0 | Something magical happens when you don't have a lot of resources. |
| 0:48.0 | People connect with you in a different way. |
| 0:50.0 | You're equal to them. |
| 0:51.0 | Global Prescriptions for Reconecting with Life. |
| 0:53.5 | It's just ahead on today's travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.0 | What have your travels taught you? |
| 1:01.0 | Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. |
| 1:03.0 | I'll be talking with two very inspiring travelers in the hour ahead. |
| 1:06.0 | Their stories might make you consider rearranging your priorities, changing your lifestyle, |
| 1:10.0 | or even planting some garlic. |
| 1:12.0 | Ferrence Mate has wrestled with what's really good. your lifestyle or even planting some garlic. |
| 1:13.0 | Ferrence Mate has wrestled with what's really important and he's written about it in a best |
| 1:16.8 | seller called a reasonable life. |
| 1:18.9 | He updates this outlook for surviving the modern age. |
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