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🗓️ 26 August 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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The director of the new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art tells us how a small city in Arkansas became home to a major art museum. Then author Rick Antonson describes how motoring west along the legendary Route 66 can reveal easily overlooked slices of Middle America. Plus, a Dutch tour guide discusses Amsterdam's reliance on bicycles — and what visitors should know before jumping into the bike lane.
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0:00.0 | It might not be what you'd expect to find in the Ozarks of Northwest Arkansas. |
0:05.4 | Coming up the director of the Crystal Bridges Museum explains that showing five |
0:09.7 | centuries of American art is just part of its mission. |
0:13.7 | That's what we're trying to do. It's really create the idea of what is an American. |
0:17.7 | It meant something very different in the 18th century than it means today. |
0:22.6 | Drive an hour north in the murals and chop, but it'll tell you you've arrived at the Mother Road. |
0:27.2 | The highway that Americans once drove from the Midwest to Southern California |
0:31.0 | is now mostly an nostalgic road trip into the 20th century. |
0:35.1 | Rick Anton said chairs what he found when he went looking for Route 66. |
0:39.4 | And you would feel like you stepped across the threshold into the 1940s or the 1950s. |
0:46.0 | And we'll look at a fun way to get around in the Netherlands. |
0:48.8 | Rent a bike for as long as you are in Amsterdam. |
0:52.1 | It's the easiest way to move around. |
0:54.7 | When you come along for the ride, it's travel Prick Steves. |
1:00.7 | What's a fancy art museum doing all the way out in Bentonville, Arkansas? |
1:05.2 | Well, the director of Crystal Bridges tells us in just a minute. |
1:08.8 | A little later on today's travel with Rick Steves, Rick Anton said, |
1:11.7 | remember is the fun of a classic road trip as he motored west from Chicago to LA on Route 66. |
1:18.5 | He found more than just American nostalgia along the way. |
1:21.9 | And a guide from Amsterdam tells us how the Dutch just love to bicycle everywhere. |
1:26.6 | They even make it easy for tourists to catch some of the fresh air and exercise |
1:30.0 | on the many bike routes of Holland. |
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