Travel writer and TV host Rick Steves’ latest book, “On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer,” actually features some of his oldest work. It shares the personal photographs and journaling of a 23-year-old Steves’ coming of age on the “Hippie Trail.”
His expedition through Europe and Asia was a chance to get out of his comfort zone and away from the predictability of everyday life.
“There was some romance in not knowing where your next bed is going to be and to be on a ragged bus going through potholes,” Steves told KCUR’s Up To Date…