A Bit of Relief: Rick Steves' Travel Dreams

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Rick Steves is a travel evangelist, always in motion, traversing faraway places and inspiring others to do the same. So when the world shuts down, and Rick Steves can no longer travel, then who is Rick Steves? Sam Anderson, a writer for The Times Magazine, profiled the travel guru last year. Today, Sam asks Rick how he’s been expanding his horizons from home. Dreaming of travel, we learn, is nearly as sweet as the real thing.

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0:00.0	We are recording.
0:02.0	Okay.
0:03.0	Hi, Rick.
0:04.0	Sam, nice to see you.
0:05.0	Rick Steve's one of my favorite people on the planet.
0:09.0	Sam, nice to hear from you again.
0:11.0	We had a good conversation a while ago
0:13.0	and now it's a whole different world.
0:14.0	Yeah, so I profiled you.
0:16.0	My profile of you came out in the New York Times magazine
0:19.0	last year.
0:20.0	And part of the reason I wanted to call and talk to you
0:23.0	was you and I are supposed to be hanging out.
0:26.0	That's right. It was one of the last things I deleted
0:28.0	from my calendar.
0:30.0	I'm Sam Anderson and I'm a staff writer
0:33.0	for the New York Times magazine.
0:35.0	And last year I wrote a profile of the travel guru Rick Steves.
0:40.0	Hi, I'm Rick Steves.
0:41.0	For many travelers, the quintessence of Spain is found here.
0:44.0	Andalusia.
0:46.0	So Rick Steves for anyone who doesn't know,
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