Hi, I'm Rick Steves. Some of my favorite travelers are with us in the hour ahead to tell us how they turn their travels into extraordinary adventures.

It starts with your perspective.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield photographed the Earth from space.

And you wait for just the right angle between Africa and the spaceship and the sun,

and suddenly the sun glints off to water as if some great lighting engineer just gave you the best

picture possible. The things Pico Eyre observes in his travels become his most

treasured souvenirs. That's a large part of what travel is for all of us collecting those moments that in fact keep replaying inside us for the rest of our lives.

Travel publisher Hillary Bratt tells us how she still gets around in far away places.

I still hitchhike on in my 70s,

and you meet the most wonderful people.

And we celebrate 10 years of joining you on the radio each week,

remembering my first backpacking trip to Europe.

It's all just ahead on travel with Rick Steve's.

When a vacation makes you see the world differently than you did before you left home, you can bet it was time and money well spent.

Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. In the hour ahead, we'll hear from some extraordinary travelers with a gift for showing us the world in a whole new light.

Like me, travel publisher Hillary Brat's been writing guidebooks for decades now.

She tells us how it all started for her in the jungles of Peru a little later

in the hour ahead. And author Pico Eyre makes a case for being open to surprises in our travels

to learn more about our place in the world and not miss what matters the most.

One of the ultimate ways to explore our place in the grand scheme of things is circling the Earth, camera in hand on the International Space Station.

Chris Hadfield used his photographer's eye during his missions in space to capture remarkable

impressions of our planet while circling it from 250 miles away.

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