When the anxieties that come with a commute and a cubicle just got to be too much for Kim Dynan, she told her husband, we're leaving.

I came home one day and I told my husband that I thought that we should, you know, sell our house and everything we owned,

quit our jobs and take an open-ended trip around the world.

Coming up, find out how one American couple bought the time to enjoy the world and see what else it has to offer.

Singer Buffy St. Marie tells us how her travels across Canada, the U.S. and abroad

have stoked her creativity and taught her a lot about humanity from the 1960s till today.

Just to continually grow and be informed by the people that you happen to run into in all these different countries,

it really gives me a sense of forgiveness for human frailty.

And we hear from listeners hoping to travel again soon with questions and memories to share.

Come along for the adventure in the hour ahead,

it's travel with Rick Steeves.

She first caught the era of the Greenwich Village folk music scene back in 1964, but

L.B.J. and Nixon got her music blacklisted from commercial radio in the U.S. because she

opposed the Vietnam War. Today Buffy St. Marie is

still going strong. In just a bit we'll revisit the conversation we had with

Buffy when her album Medicine Songs first came out. She'll tell us about what her travels have shown

her as we hear how her prophetic voice is all the more relevant today. Plus, Kim

Dinan explains how she and her husband took a gap year, three years actually, to explore the world before settling down.

That's a little later in the hour ahead on today's travel with Rick Steves.

Let's start by checking in with you, our listeners at 877333 Rick.

By email we're at radio at Rick Steves.com.

While we all have questions about making travel reservations during a pandemic, I think we can keep stoking our travel dreams

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