Paul Thoreu drove the back roads of Mexico along the length of the U.S. border to see for himself what life was really like behind today's brutal headlines.

Imagine living your whole life a hundred yards from the United States, seeing cars going back and forth,

hearing life across the river.

Coming up, Paul Thruu tells us about the Eternal Mexico he encounter, far from the tourist

resorts.

Ukraine's been getting noticed in the political news, but how does it fare as a tourist

destination?

It's overlooked, but it has this deep, rich, fascinating history, and you don't even have to go that far back

because there's very recent stuff which is incredibly interesting and powerful to try to learn about.

We got the sense that Ukraine is only just now starting to define its own national identity

because for a lot of its history it was sort of someone else's backyard, you know.

A Ukrainian vacation and Paul Tharoo's Mexican journey are all in the hour ahead on today's travel with Rick

Steve's.

Come along.

Where are today's off the radar inexpensive travel destinations?

So many tourists from around the world are crowding into the same top travel sites.

But a pair of travel writers that I work with are really jazzed about their recent trip to Ukraine.

They'll tell us what Ukraine has to offer as a tourist destination a little later in the hour

on today's travel with Rick Steve's.

After more than 50 years of writing about his epic journeys in travel books and novels,

Paul Thoreu has recently finished a series of road trips on the back roads of Mexico.

He wanted to see for himself who lives there, how they

...