How do you feel about the place you call home?

Hi, I'm Rick Steeves.

Growing up in Utah, Terry Tempest Williams' grandmother taught her to use field guides as a kind of sacred text.

This love of nature has shaped how love Great Salt Lake. I think it's a

magical place. It's our Serengeti. It's a beautiful reflective mirror that

calls birds home. I think it's heaven.

Stay with us as Terry Tempest Williams shares lessons that her mother, her grandmother, and even

the land itself have imparted.

And it's a bedrock truth. Let us be conservative. Let us be prudent. Let us protect these

lands that define us as Americans and protect what protects us.

Plus a tour guide from Italy tells us what it's like to be alone with nature at night in the Sahara Desert.

You have to put the sunglasses because even without the moon, there are so many stars is so white.

There's wisdom from the desert in the hour ahead on travel with Rick Steves.

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Rick Steves.

We'll get a view of the world from a motor bike in the Sahara Desert in just a bit on today's travel with Rick

Steve's. First though, I have the good fortune to talk with Terry Tempest Williams. She's hard to classify, but there's no doubt she's a remarkable voice whose intelligence, passion, and compassion are inspiring.

She's an intellectual, a naturalist, and an outspoken environmental activist on behalf of her native Utah and the Western United States.

Her books often read like poetry as she explores themes of spirituality, conservation, of natural history, women's issues,

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