So it’s a treat to read his new memoir, On the Hippie Trail, and meet a Steves who is much younger and much more unsure — perhaps in need of a fairy godparent of his own. In 1978, Steves was a 23-year ...

Rick Steves’s 1978 journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu reflects a spirit of edgy wanderlust at odds with his image as a folksy ...

He left school at 15 to join a hippie commune where he lived in an old fire engine. Through his environmental activism, he managed to turn a makeshift turbine, which generated electricity for his ...