469 Fresh Starts: Schultz and Sedaris; Outdoor Adventures; Unseen City
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.3 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Authors David Sedaris and Patricia Schultz encourage making travel plans in the new year. Chris Santella recommends getting outdoors for an adrenaline kick heli-skiing in Alaska or a civilized game of golf on the coast of Ireland. Plus, Nate Johnson stirs up our curiosity about urban wildlife from the birds we take for granted to the plants we never noticed.
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| 0:00.0 | Walking to daycare in the city turned into a kind of urban treasure hunt as Nate Johnson and his daughter started to notice all the little things that most of us overlook. |
| 0:09.0 | She had that sense of childlike wonder. She hadn't learned yet to filter out the things that she was seeing. |
| 0:15.0 | Coming up, find out what the unseen city has to show us. |
| 0:19.0 | Would you like to explore someplace new in the Great Outdoors? The author of the 50 places recreational guides |
| 0:24.3 | recommends scenic destinations that are ideal for skiing, paddling, and cycling. |
| 0:29.7 | Chris Santella finds exploring the Napa Valley is perfect on a bike. |
| 0:34.0 | The vineyards and the other attractions there are spaced almost perfectly. |
| 0:38.6 | A lot of them are 8 or 10 miles apart. |
| 0:41.0 | And American humorist David Sedaris explains why he moved to Europe. |
| 0:45.1 | You know I just thought I lived here for 40 years and I thought well that's enough. |
| 0:49.6 | He also reveals why he went to Japan to stop smoking. |
| 0:53.0 | Get inspired to enjoy the world around you near and far. |
| 0:56.0 | It's just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:00.0 | Over the years, I've come to appreciate just how much our travels influence how we view our world. |
| 1:06.0 | In fact, if we don't seize the moment, it can pass us by and we miss something wonderful. |
| 1:11.0 | Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. |
| 1:13.0 | Coming up on today's travel with Rick Steeves, |
| 1:15.0 | author Nathaniel Johnson tells us how his young daughter |
| 1:18.0 | helped him to take a closer look at the neighborhood |
| 1:20.0 | where they walked every day. |
| 1:21.0 | To answer her constant questions about just about |
| 1:24.2 | everything they saw, he learned why so many pigeons are missing a toe, what those |
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